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Pressure On Mobile Companies To Cut Text Costs

Mon, 28 Jan 2008

Mobile phone operators are set to come under renewed pressure next month to reduce the cost of text messages and data downloads for mobile phone customers abroad .

Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner for Information, wants the cost of sending a text abroad to fall by at least 50 per cent.

Reding has already helped save consumers billions by forcing massive cuts in roaming charges for mobile phone calls .

Her campaign resulted in a new European regulation introducing an upper limit of 36p a minute for outgoing calls and 17p for incoming calls compared with around £1.67 a minute before her intervention.

Text messages sent abroad can currently cost ordinary mobile users in the UK up to 49p each, with Vodafone the most expensive network . Rival phone companies charge almost as much, although O2 look set to make the first move by cutting prices to a maximum of 25p a text for pre-pay users from April.

Reding is expected to put forward her case for the cost of mobile texts and emails - sent by Blackberry mobile devices - to be slashed in Europe at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona next month.
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