Last month an alliance of operators, representing 70% of European mobile users, said they would cut their wholesale roaming prices by half.

上月代表了70%欧洲移动电话用户的运营商联盟，宣布他们将砍掉他们一半的漫游批发价格。

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“Network neutrality”, the principle that operators should not discriminate between different forms of traffic, will not succeed on mobile networks, says Holger Knöpke of T-Mobile, a European operator.

欧洲运营商T-Mobile 的荷尔格.克洛克（Holger Knöpke）表示，“网络中立”这一运营商不应区别对待不同形式流量的原则，在移动网络上将不会取得成功。

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Meanwhile, European operators paid around EU100 billion for licences to build new high-speed “thirdgeneration”(3G) mobile networks.

与此同时，欧洲运营商们，为购得新一代高速移动网络“第三代产品”，简称3G的构建许可证,支付了近1000亿欧元。

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However some European mobile operators claim that current levels of use are already crippling their networks.

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Although currently resisting moves to this effect from the European Commission, mobile operators may yet find that they stand to make more money from increasing demand for simple voice services than losing even more money on 3G.

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