Sentence examples for caps on data from inspiring English sources
Monique Goyens, the director general of the European Consumers Organizationn, said the new retail caps on data roaming were welcome, but not low enough to encourage widespread use.
European laws on mobile roaming charges set limits on how much consumers can be charged for voice services, but place only wholesale caps on data services.
"In 2012 the European Commission introduced caps on data roaming charges within Europe of £45 – still very expensive, but outside of Europe there is no such protection and the charges can skyrocket even more," Baliszewski warns.
Paul Rübig, a member of the European Parliament, echoed the commissioner's concern over the charges, saying lawmakers would probably consider imposing new retail price caps on data roaming next year.
A third would set lower wholesale price caps on data roaming and require operators to sell the service to low-cost virtual operators like Tele2 of Sweden, a specialist reseller of services on other operator's networks.
Some software developers fear they will, and if that happens, the caps on data use that AT&T has imposed could also make consumers lose their appetite for the latest innovations.
Whether she eventually supports a retail price cap on data roaming remains to be seen.
The cap on data was instead set at the wholesale level, limiting the amount operators could charge each other to handle data calls between their customers.
Since 2007, the Union has enforced retail price caps on voice and text roaming, and a wholesale cap on data roaming charges.
Robb has consistently maintained the five-year cap on data exclusivity, telling US negotiators that the period was effectively closer to six or seven years due to the approval processes required.
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.
