The Evil European

Mobile phone companies ripping customers off?! The shock of it!

I was in Amsterdam recently. Before hand I loaded up maps for the GPS on my phone, but being in a hurry and not reading the instructions, I made a hash of it. In the end, I decided to load the maps over the GSM network, I know it would cost but I was on holiday.

I was charged £15 for 2.5MB of data! What was even more amusing was that the company I use in the UK was the same network provider I used in the Netherlands, T-Mobile! So much for a single European market! The EU has put a cap on incoming and outgoing calls, even though our wonderful Labour government opposed it, seems data was excluded.

Anyway, its even more of a rip-off for text messages, £374.49 per MB, four times more than it costs to get data from the Hubble Space telescope!

I know that prices where sky high, but not out of this world! If the EU is going to function as a single market, as well as enable people to be connected, something needs to be done to crack down on the legalised extortion of the telecoms companies. If prices where to come down, people would make more calls.