Friday, November 28, 2008

SMS from abroad will be cheaper


EU's Reding Medienkommisarin: pleads for more favorable international phone costs. The EU Council of Ministers has approved the proposal by the European Commission agreed to the price of international SMS costs. The market for telecommunications Commissioner Viviane Reding had proposed in September, SMS abroad by mobile providers to cooperate with a maximum of 11 cents excluding VAT to be calculated. The initiative is the Luxembourger yesterday by the European Telecommunications Ministers adopted unchanged. Preisenkung time for season 2009? True in the coming weeks, the EU Parliament, the prices for SMS in EU countries in time for the season on 1 July 2009 drastically reduced. Among the proposed 11 cents would come in Germany, nor the amount of VAT to 19 percent. This results in a gross price of just 13 cents per SMS. Currently calculate German mobile provider for every SMS sent abroad or approximately 30 cents.

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