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Re:Europe mostly ends mobile roaming fees from today by vidarh on Thursday June 15, 2017 @03:14PM (#14563496)
Maybe eventually, but the point is they had to start somewhere, and 7 per GB is still a substantial reduction.

The EU parliament wanted to go much further, starting at 4 and gradually reducing to 1. They'll get pushed further down eventually, but at the same time nobody wants to overdo this and cause problems for these providers by going too fast.

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Re:Europe mostly ends mobile roaming fees from today by ptaipale on Friday June 16, 2017 @12:46AM (#14566734)
My point is that they should regulate the extractive pricing between operators before they regulate the pricing operators have to give to end customers.

Now those operators that have been competitive will suffer. Those that have been extractive towards their own customers and their competitors will benefit.

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