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THE EU TODAY scrapped a 90-day limit to its landmark free mobile phone roaming policy, promising checks to curb abuse after the initial plan ran into fierce criticism.
At a news briefing, Andrus Ansip, EU Commission vice-president, and Commissioner for the Digital Single Market, said:
We will not put any kind of limits on duration or, how many days [travellers] can enjoy no roaming surcharges, but we decided to put some clear safeguards on residency.
The commission announced the original ‘free roaming’ plans with huge fanfare last year, but when it unveiled the details earlier this month consumer groups were outraged by a limit of 90 days of free roaming per year.
They had assumed the Commission’s pledge to end mobile roaming charges – additional costs when people use their phone outside their home country – meant exactly that, without conditions or caveats.
As a result, they responded angrily to the 90-day “fair use” limit, alleging that Brussels had caved in to the powerful telecoms companies for whom roaming charges have long been a lucrative source of extra income.
Instead of time limits, the new Commission proposal will allow operators to crack down on people whose phone usage abroad “significantly” outweighs their domestic calls.
It will also allow mobile operators to cancel SIM cards found to be used almost exclusively abroad.
The Commission’s proposal now goes to the EU’s 28 national regulators for negotiation, in order for the plan to be implemented by 15 June next year as originally promised.
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Registering a company is no indicator of success.
Running a profitable, sustainable one is; one that creates and keeps jobs
They’re start ups. The clue is in the title. What’s your point exactly?
His point is that this is being presented as an indicator of economic recovery, rather than mere exuberance. Not a bad thing mind, but even a dead cat bounces. Best of luck to all involved.
Stop with the further evidence of a recovering economy.
Cue the SF spinnerbots:
I’m not feeling
No one I speak to is feeling it
Yaaaawn. Too early for me, back to bed I go, wake me up in the afternoon!
Jobsbridge
Exactly PIR
But the recovery is an illusion created by government spin.
Yawn
Can’t face the truth PIR? The real recovery doesn’t fit with the Spin Feign narrative of terrible governance, but the the facts seldom bother Spin Feign in their efforts to rewrite history… As a real Republican I find your politics despicable.
Sinn Fein /IRA sympathisers won’t be happy with a good news story about business. They’re too busy shouting WE WON’T PAY hand in hand with Paul Gollum Murphy to notice (or acknowledge) things are improving.
They’ll be much happier to hail Gersus Christ’s abolish water and household charges and replace them with a wealth tax idea. They’re mostly unemployed anyway, so it’d suit them down to the ground.
More bad news… Oh wait it’s good :)
Staying in business is the challenge, especially when there is ZERO help, red tape, taxes galore, anyone can start. But best of luck to all, you will need it.
More jobs for the yellow packs
Start ups, sorry I thought you meant businesses creating work, as the DSP are trying to have as many people as possible set up their own businesses but many fail, mores the pity.
Where are they as I do not see any near me…
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