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World Service,02 Jul 2014,55 mins

EC Cuts Mobile Roaming Charges

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Telecoms companies are told to cut roaming costs in Europe as the European Commission moves s step closer towards stamping them out altogether. What's the story where you are? Do roaming costs even apply? There's a huge furore in Norway as the government there brings in a new law banning begging. We learn that in fact it's already illegal in a great many countries. As India prepares to hear the first budget from the new Modi government, Rahul Tandon in Calcutta, tells us what people hope and expect. Joining presenter Manuela Saragosa at our London HQ is David Kuo of The Motley Fool; in our New York bureau, Christine Bader, author of The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist.

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