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Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast'sActions
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 07:52:08 +0100 (CET)
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Owen DeLong wrote:
pay for domestic. (If any of you cellular companies are listening, that's right, I'd be willing to pay ~$250/month for global unlimited voice/data and my usage would not increase very much above what you're already providing). I also happen to know that I'm not the only consumer that would very much like to be able to purchase this kind of service.
Considering there are mobile roaming partners that charge USD10-15 per megabyte, unfortunately that proposition is really hard to do in todays global market.
The EU has regulated roaming prices within the EU because this just didn't work "right" in the free market:
<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/roaming/regulation/index_en.htm>It's still way too high, but the global roaming market is "interesting" and I'm sure european mobile operators will still charge carriers outside of the EU a lot more than this because of the good old "because we can and most do".
So your action to not use roaming is the best way to handle it, personally I get local SIM card in the country I go to and have two phones when I'm travelling. It's the only sensible way to handle the current situation.
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike () swm pp se
Current thread:
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast'sActions, (continued)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast'sActions William Herrin (Nov 29)
- RE: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast'sActions Ben Butler (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement ConcerningComcast'sActions Michael Painter (Nov 30)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement ConcerningComcast'sActions Joly MacFie (Nov 30)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement ConcerningComcast'sActions Mikael Abrahamsson (Nov 30)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement ConcerningComcast'sActions Joly MacFie (Nov 30)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast'sActions Jared Mauch (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast'sActions Andrew Koch (Nov 29)
- RE: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement ConcerningComcast'sActions George Bonser (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast'sActions Owen DeLong (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast'sActions Mikael Abrahamsson (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast'sActions Christopher Morrow (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast'sActions Mikael Abrahamsson (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast'sActions Jeffrey Lyon (Nov 29)
- RE: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement ConcerningComcast'sActions George Bonser (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement ConcerningComcast'sActions Owen DeLong (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast'sActions Cameron Byrne (Nov 30)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast'sActions William Herrin (Nov 29)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast'sActions William Warren (Nov 30)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast'sActions William Herrin (Nov 30)
- Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast'sActions Brielle Bruns (Nov 30)