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September 04, 2008
A message from Deep Space for the PM: Stop the rip-off!
You may recall our comments on SMS messages, "the purest form of profit ever invented", which translates for the consumer as "the purest form of rip-off ever invented.
It now seems at last - after the BBC calculated that the data charges involved were four times that of sending a message to Earth from the Hubble telescope in Deep Space - the European Union is proposing to do something to stop the gouging. It's considering capping the SMS roaming rate at 11 euro cents, or 16 US cents.
Isn't it time the economically conservative Rudd Government stopped doing what the massive Telstra lobbying push tells it to do, and decides that maximising corporate profits by limiting competition isn't a very clever thing to do when the inflation genie, according to our Treasurer, has popped the cork?
Posted by cw at September 4, 2008 04:31 PM
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