New AT&T customers will soon find themselves unable to take part in the carrier’s $10 a month for 1000 text messaging plan. Starting on August 21, that plan will be going away. Those who already use this rate plan will see it grandfathered when the big day comes.

EU Commissioner Viviane Reding has given Europe’s mobile phone operators until July 1, 2008 to cut (in fact slash) their excessive roaming charges for SMS messages. Studies show that a text sent from abroad can cost £0.49 ($0.95), while transferring 1MB of data can cost £4.11 ($8.00). So what does Ms Reding mean by ‘slash’? more »