Ofcom Chief Executive Ed Richards is lobbying European Commission telecom regulators to slash the allowed prices of international text messaging and mobile Internet access, says Jonathan Prynn, Evening Standard reporter. It appears Richards has in mind prices lower than currently offered by mobile operator O2. O2 charges £3 for one megabyte of data transferred.
So it appears Richards seeks prices significantly lower than the £4.11 per megabyte level that tends to be the average now. European mobile carriers probably will hope to stave off such regulation by voluntarily dropping their tariffs in time for an announcement at Mobile World Congress meeting in February.
The moves would be good for consumers, and obviously financially damaging for carriers. As always is the case, the lower tariffs also would make it harder for upstart competitors to grow their companies by undercutting the high tariffs.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Lower European Mobile Data, Texting Prices
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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