Good news for mobile phone users in Europe, the EU telecom ministers have come a to a decision to reduce prices of sending SMS while users traveled abroad within the limits of the Union. With this decision, carriers wont charge users more than 11 euros cents for each SMS, charge calls per second after the 31st second and the data downloads be charged at a euro per megabyte of download. EU Telecommunications Commissioner, Viviane Reding welcomed the decision, saying:
Ministers have answered the commission’s call for a speedy response to the SMS and data roaming rip-off very positively…I am confident that with parliament we will ensure that consumers travelling in the EU will save money when sending texts and surfing the web with a mobile phone as of July 1, 2009.
It’s 11 Cents per message, not Euros
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Hey thanks for pointing out the mistake.
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