EU Parliament approves caps to mobile roaming charges
The European Parliament approved measures to cap roaming charges for mobile phones, paving the way for ratification by EU member states next month and entry into force by this summer.
The European Commission welcomed the majority vote in favour of the restrictions.
‘This means that already from this summer, mobile phone customers will start benefiting from substantially reduced roaming charges when travelling from one EU country to another,’ EU telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding said.
‘Europe’s internal market will finally become truly borderless, even for mobile phone bills,’ Reding said.
Under the proposals, roaming charges will be regulated for three years in the hope that by the end of that period, roaming prices will be lower and the market more competitive.
The average wholesale charge that an EU operator can charge to a roaming customer’s ‘home’ operator for calls made abroad will be capped at 0.30 eur per minute. This will decrease by 0.02 eur per year over the duration of the regulation.
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