Guess the mobile companies don’t plan on rolling over without a fight. Well, this is the case in Europe, anyway. Being this is happening across the pond though, chances are pretty good that the companies will come out the loser in this drama.

Europe’s phone companies pledged yesterday to fight plans by Brussels to abolish mobile roaming charges which generate £6.9bn a year.

A plan by the European commission to remove the “excessive charges” by summer 2007 prompted accusations of heavy-handedness from the industry. “Such a heavy intervention, at both wholesale and retail levels, would be unprecedented in the mobile market and appears disproportionate,” warned Michael Bartholomew, director of the European Telecommunications Network Operators lobby group. Source: Guardian Unlimited

[tags]heavy-handed,mobile market,mobile industry,european commission[/tags]