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EU Travelers to Get Cheaper Text Messaging, Web Surfing |
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EU Travelers to Get Cheaper Text Messaging, Web Surfing
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By Allen Tsai | Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:59 am |
The plans will take effect in July and are being confirmed rapidly since EU legislators, facing an election in June, want to show how the coalition can make a positive impact in the daily lives of its nearly 500 million residents.Building on 2007 caps on making calls from abroad, the package limits the price operators can charge customers for sending short text messages via their mobile phones while they are abroad to 11 euro cents (14 U.S. cents). The price to send text messages average about 28 cents, nearly 10 times the price for sending messages from within one's home country. The plan will also limit the price of transferring a megabyte of data traveling within the EU to a maximum of 1 euro from July 2009, then to 80 cents from July 2010 and 50 cents as of July 2011. Currently, such services costs about 1.68 euros. "Using your mobile phone abroad in the EU should not cost unjustifiably more than at home, whether for making calls, sending texts or surfing the Web," EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding. "Europe's 37 million tourists and 110 million business travelers are waiting for the promise of the borderless single market to finally have a positive impact on their phone bills."
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Thu Feb 09, 2012 3:58 pm | By
More households in the U.S. are eschewing pay-cable service in favor of streaming video, a new study finds, potentially drying up revenues for a long-powerful industry.
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Thu Feb 09, 2012 3:20 pm | By
U.S. regulators are close to approving Google's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola, putting the Android maker one step closer to forming a partnership that may change alliances in the industry.
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Thu Feb 09, 2012 3:10 pm | By
Apple will hold a launch event for the iPad 3 in the first week of March, as the company updates its tablet to stay ahead of rivals.
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Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:54 pm | By
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was unfit for George H.W. Bush's council in 1991, according to an FBI investigation, highlighting his drug use and decision to not support his daughter.
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