Jerry Raia
09-28-2005, 06:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://mobileanalystwatch.blogspot.com/2005/09/study-faults-high-cellphone-taxes_26.html' target='_blank'>http://mobileanalystwatch.blogspot.com/2005/09/study-faults-high-cellphone-taxes_26.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"The Wall Street Journal writes that "high taxes on the sale and use of mobile phones are complicating efforts to bring low-cost, mobile communications to people in the developing world." The study of tax rates and cellphone usage in 50 sample countries was conducted by Pyramid Research and Frontier Economics on behalf of the GSM Association. The study concluded that eliminating value-added and customs taxes on low-cost phones would increase mobile-phone "penetration" by between 9.8 and 19.6 percentage points."</i><br /><br />Does this surprise anyone? High taxes can crush anything. I wonder if they also have all the other bizarre "fees" that show up on most phone bills in the states, wireless and wired.