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Story: EU commissioners clash over mobile roaming

The opposition is corect. Reatil prices will be arbitraged by MVNO non carrier competitors of whom there are many. Self regulating.

All the profit is in the arbirarily high wholesale chages,, 45¢ per minute for a national mobile connectin by the originator and then a DWDM at cents to the dstination countries carrier switch you guess the real carrier cost.

And this exchange is conntrolled by a clearly anti competitive oligopoly of further consolidating facilities based carriers including mostly ex incumbents plus Vodaphone but especially the more pan national like FT(Orange), DT (T-Mobile), Telefonica (XX locally plus O2).

A solution to this situation already exists. The EC should be ashamed anti trust law has not been applied to this situation already. Clearly some back room dirty deals by national governments are stopping the EC laws from working.

Brian

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