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There are laws against that in Europe dedicated to telecom. Surprised it doesn't exist in the US. It happened about a decade ago when everybody started getting
by user5994461 8y ago
There are laws against that in Europe dedicated to telecom. Surprised it doesn't exist in the US.
It happened about a decade ago when everybody started getting a cellphone. You should have noticed if you had teenagers yourself or in your entourage with a phone.
Bills in the hundreds of dollars after a few hours of phone calls, or using some MB of data. Roaming charges were insane and could bill a thousand euros when traveling within Europe or abroad.
Some regulations came in and prohibited that. They mandated to send notifications and block billing after some ceilings.
- pkaye 8y agoProbably because the US in a big country so not many people call outside of the US and there are no roaming charges within the US. In Europe, there are lots of different countries close to each other.
- chrismcb 8y agoEven if the US had these sort is laws, I don't think they would apply to Canada.
- mirages 8y agoMy EU conutry requires that phone bill cannot exceed 3 times your monthly subsbription price. If you'd go above that you would need to pay in advance