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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9237

21 July 2006
Contents Publication in full By article 23 / 45
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/telecommunications
Commission approves decision of French regulator to bring down wholesale prices on SMS

Brussels, 20/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - The Commission has approved conclusions reached by the French national regulatory authority (ARCEP) to regulate wholesale prices charged by mobile phone operators for incoming short text messages (SMS) on mobile phones. ARCEP is the first EU Member State regulator to propose such a move. According to ARCEP, each mobile phone operator in France held a monopoly for receiving SMS messages from other networks as the telephone operator of the subscriber...

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