BBC’s Radio One Newsbeat is reporting that the cost of texting from abroad could be set to drop (grrrrrrrreat!). After roaming calls were addressed last year, Ofcom is now demanding that the cost of texting and using the mobile internet is also reduced.
Apparently the average cost of sending a text in the UK is 5.6p, whereas it’s 21p when roaming – nearly 4x the cost, for something which doesn’t cost the mobile companies much more (yes, there’s some transiting and interworking, but what’s a bit of that between friends!!).Likewise data usage is on a similar multiplier (on average) if you are roaming (except with 3 in some of it’s network countries, which are not charging extra).
Personally I’ll be glad to see this come in – I travel a lot, both Pan-European and Globally, and my phone bill always shocks me – especially when I’ve been travelling a lot during a given month! I don’t think anyone generally would refuse a reduction in prices, so you are all going to agree when you leave comments, right? 🙂
[Via: Story – BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat]