Rigid caps on retail prices will limit operators' ability to offer novel roaming schemes.
California's politicians summoned the courage to lift the caps on retail prices, which, together with a vigorous program of energy conservation, reduced demand.
"The California energy crisis showed what happens when you deregulate the wholesale market without removing the price caps on retail electricity.
Screw the cap on securely.
The town has not adopted such a ban, but since 2002, has had a 15,000-square-foot cap on new retail construction, adopted with Barnes & Noble in mind.
The European Union's telecommunications commissioner said Thursday that she would conduct a review of mobile phone roaming charges, a process that could lead to the first cap on the retail cost carriers charge for cross-border mobile Internet use in Europe.
According to a post on Wednesday in Zero Hedge, Apple's market capitalization, about $550 billion, now tops the entire combined market cap of retail in America as measured by Standard and Poor's.
Unfortunately, California's political leaders seem afraid to lift the caps on the retail price of electricity, lest angry consumers retaliate against them at the polls.
In the weeks leading up to a planned announcement on Wednesday, Mrs. Kroes fought for the retail cap on data roaming, while giving operators an additional 2 cents per short message on text message roaming, which had originally been set to fall to 8 cents by mid-2014.
