AldiTalk waives roaming cost in EU starting with march 3rd

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Originally Posted by Motel75

I hope other German prepaids soon copy this. In fact, I'd be surprised if they didn't.

Strong telecoms regulation, together with strong commercial competition, has worked remarkably well in Europe during the last 10 years.

The Figures on pages 4 and 5 of this document show just how well the EU Commission, Ofcom, and the other European telecom regulators have brought down "Mobile Termination Rates" (MTR):

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/bin...MCT_slides.pdf

Perhaps the EU Commission should only allow O2 Germany (Telefonica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG) to takeover Eplus, on condition that O2 also completely eliminates all roaming costs within Europe, by 1st July 2014.

Otherwise, without such a guarantee, it would seem wise to block the takeover and leave Eplus free so that it can introduce additional competitive tariffs and services across Europe.