French Regulator Cuts Text-Messaging Charge

It's about time. Price of SMS is finally coming down in France. Cellular News reports.

"French electronic communications regulator ARCEP said Thursday it has decided to lower the wholesale charge for SMS text messaging interconnection through France's three mobile telecom operators to euro .043 ($.050) per SMS from euro .053 ($.052), retroactive to July 1, 2005.

The ruling follows a complaint by one of the operators, Bouygues Telecom, that the two other operators, SFR and Orange, had an unfair advantage, because Bouygues has higher per-customer charges due to its smaller customer base.

emily | 9:02 AM | European/ZA/USA SMS pricing issues |
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