EU Cracking Down On Text Message Charges

If you think plopping down fifteen cents for a text message here in the U.S. is bad, the folks in Europe are paying almost half a buck for each text message. The European Commission wants to cap the amount phone companies can charge and bring the price down to a more reasonable level.

The EU's top telecom official, Viviane Reding, said she was putting the new rules forward because telecommunications companies had not responded to her call for them to lower the roaming charges for sending or receiving mobile phone text messages outside a user's home nation.

Comments