In France, a SMS strike-day on May 5

An SMS strike is planned in France on May 5, inviting french people not to send any SMS on that day, in protest of the operators' high billing rates. [Smart Mobs via mediaTIC.

According to UFC, a mobile user pays between 0.11 and 0,15 euro ($ 0,13 and $ 0,18) to send a single text message, whereas it only cost the operator 0,02 euro ($ 0.024), allowing him to realise a 80,2% profit margin. cf Consumer Advocate Group in France fights to bring down price of SMS or for more on European pricing issues, check out this category in Textually.

emily | 2:00 PM | European/ZA/USA SMS pricing issues |
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