{"id":12939,"date":"2010-06-08T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-08T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T08:57:00","slug":"capping-cell-phone-call-rates-not-illegal-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/12939-capping-cell-phone-call-rates-not-illegal-eu.html","title":{"rendered":"Capping cell phone call rates not illegal:  EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone, Telefonica O2, T-Mobile and Orange had argued that maximum price limits for &#8220;roaming&#8221; &#8211; making or receiving calls outside the user&#8217;s home nation &#8211; were illegal.<\/p>\n<p>A Tuesday ruling from the European Court of Justice dismissed their arguments, saying the EU&#8217;s executive had the right to fix limits for roaming fees, which telecoms companies were charging at well above real costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union&#039;s highest court has rejected a challenge by four British cell phone companies to a Europe-wide price cap on fees for using a phone abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}