By Allen Tsai | Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:06 pm |
European travelers will pay less to send text messages under a deal agreed to by EU negotiators.
The deal continues efforts to cap "roaming" charges -- the cost of using mobile phones while traveling in another EU nation.The negotiators from the European Parliament and 27 member states called for a maximum price of 11 cents for text messages sent while abroad in the European Union, much lower than the current EU average of 29 cents which is almost 10 times the cost of sending an SMS at home. In some countries the price of sending a roaming text message is as high as 80 cents. EU nations also agreed to new cuts in mobile phone calls seeking to lower tariffs gradually to a ceiling of 35 cents (47 US cents) a minute for roaming calls from 2011. The current maximum cost for such a call is 45 cents a minute but should drop to 43 cents in July. Also from this summer, mobile telephone operators will have to charge by the second, rather than rounding up to the nearest minute. They will however be allowed to charge for 30 seconds for any very short call.
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