Europe drafts law to ban mobile roaming charges
Am I the only on that thinks this is a bit of an overreach?  Seems to me, good justifications for legislating would be<p>-If customers were being tricked into paying roaming charges in nefarious ways;<p>-If there were serious externalities somehow not being included in the roaming charge transaction<p>-If there were monopolistic / market manipulating behaviour going on.<p>-If the companies were subject to a tragedy-of-the-commons situation where private resolution was not feasible (they're not- the public broadcast spectrum is both rival and excludable in practice).<p>Instead, the state interest according to Kroes is that it's an "irritant."  This kind of top-down control seems a bit counter to the hacker/startup ethos.<p>Edit: if you're going to down vote, please can you comment and have a dialogue?