From: Paul Schmitz-Josten 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.italian soc.culture.europe alt.politics.italy soc.culture.spain soc.culture.german uk.misc uk.finance
Subject: Re: Why so many Cell Phones in EU?
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:10:07 +0100

David.Callyar schrieb am Fri, 20 Feb 2004 00:47:12 GMT in
<40355171.9ED6A012@Callyarallz.com>:

(mobile phone charges)
>Define cheap, in the USA I pay $25.00 for my month phone
>bill, and I stay on it with dial up from the moment I get up in
>then morning until I go to bed at night. And hopefully charge
>by the second means they only charge exactly what you use,
>not $1 per second. And what countries or networks have
>flat charges?

You speak of data services? I know only one example from Italy:
GPRS flat rate at about 25 Euro/month. Voice calls and SMS are subject to
further charges.

Ciao,

Paul