Mobile roaming charges capped in Europe

On Wednesday, May 23rd, "The European Parliament obligated mobile phone companies to lower roaming fees on calls made or received abroad. The Dutch daily welcomes this decision as "an advantage for Europe and for consumers. It also seems that this regulation of the market is serving another purpose: European propaganda. However, phone companies are no doubt going to have to compensate for the limitation of fees for calls abroad by raising the costs of national calls. There are crazy prices on every market. We can expect the consumer to be aware of the price of his or her call. A free market is better served by critical consumers than by authoritarian public power."

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