login
login

Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7703

21 April 2000
Contents Publication in full By article 37 / 49
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/telephone
Cost of communications from fixed phones to mobile phones

Brussels, 20/04/2000 (Agence Europe) - A study published last month by the ECTA, an association of telecommunications operators, considers that fixed telephone calls towards mobile phones are overcharged. Prices are 40-50% above the costs of usual calls by mobile phone. The total weight of this overload is evaluated at over EUR 4.5 billion annually. ECTA, whose members include MCI Worldcom and British Telecom, mainly complains about the high costs in France, Spain, Sweden, Germany and...

Contents

THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION