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A comment on EU votes net neutrality into law, abolishes mobile roaming charges. Parent comment
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Update: Someone on Hackernews argued that international charges would still apply. However, according to this [1]:
"International call charges would be capped at the price of a long-distance domestic call and intra-EU mobile calls at €0.19 per minute (plus VAT)."
there would be no difference between domestic and (EU-)international, eventually creating the coveted single market.
From Ryan Heath, spokesman of Neelie Kroes:
(Sven @1sveme)
@RyanHeathEU would the new roaming rule mean that a truly single market would be created? Could an Austrian company compete in Germany?
(Ryan Heath @RyanHeathEU)
@1sveme yes. You could buy your mobile subscription from another EU country and a company could easily set up in another country
[1] http://ec.europa.eu/news/science/130916_en.htm
(update: edited for clarity, damn, I don't get those formatting possibilities on HN)
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Update: Someone on Hackernews argued that international charges would still apply. However, according to this [1]:
"International call charges would be capped at the price of a long-distance domestic call and intra-EU mobile calls at €0.19 per minute (plus VAT)."
there would be no difference between domestic and (EU-)international, eventually creating the coveted single market.
From Ryan Heath, spokesman of Neelie Kroes:
(Sven @1sveme)
@RyanHeathEU would the new roaming rule mean that a truly single market would be created? Could an Austrian company compete in Germany?
(Ryan Heath @RyanHeathEU)
@1sveme yes. You could buy your mobile subscription from another EU country and a company could easily set up in another country
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[1] http://ec.europa.eu/news/science/130916_en.htm
(update: edited for clarity, damn, I don't get those formatting possibilities on HN)