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A comment on Europe drafts law to ban mobile roaming charges. Parent comment

Re:Europe drafts law to ban mobile roaming charges by Karunamon on Friday September 06, 2013 @03:06PM (#6342076)
Is it really that onerous (from a regulatory and compliance standpoint both) to say "You are not allowed to charge roaming fees?"

It's not as if they're regulating the price of minutes or packages or something, here. They're outlawing a very particular class of charges with a very particular meaning, with what appears to be a very good reason.

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Re:Europe drafts law to ban mobile roaming charges by fauigerzigerk on Friday September 06, 2013 @04:53PM (#6342616)
As I see it, they are weakening an important principle of competition law for no good reason at all. If they find that these prices are the result of insufficient competition they should act to change the structure of the market, not fix individual prices. That's just lazy populism.
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