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Article: EU will crack down on cost of mobile phone text messages; INTERNATIONAL.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- July 16, 2008
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The European Commission yesterday announced a crackdown on the cost of mobile phone text messages following the failure of companies to take voluntary action.
A year after slashing the cost of using mobile phones while abroad, Brussels is targeting high charges for sending and receiving mobile phone messages from another country.
The move came as a new survey showed that the 2.5 billion "roaming" text messages sent every year by mobile users moving around the EU cost more than ten times a much as ...