EC to Slash Roaming Rates
13 May 2011The European Commission will outline new plans in the coming weeks to bring European roaming rates in line with national tariffs, EU sources told Reuters.
The European Commission will outline new plans in the coming weeks to bring European roaming rates in line with national tariffs, EU sources told Reuters.
As of 1 July, to make a roamed call in another EU country shouldn’t cost more than EUR 0.43 per minute. For receiving calls users should not pay more than EUR 0.19.
July coming, a text message sent from one EU country to another will cost no more than 0.11 euro, compared to 0.28 today.
The European Parliament (EP) strongly supports the European Commission’s proposals to reduce consumer roaming charges for sending text messages and downloading data in the EU as of 1 July.
The Council of EU Telecoms Ministers has agreed to force caps on the price of roamed data and text messages, to EUR0.11 and EUR1 per MB respectively, to be introduced in July 2009.
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Source: EC, The Register
The International Telecommunications Group (INTUG) welcomed this week’s announcement by the European Commission with further action to reduce the excessive pricing of voice, text and data roaming.
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From 30 August, Europeans traveling within all of the 27 EU member states will pay a little less for making or receiving calls on their cell phones. But text messaging and data usage will remain unjustifiably high, says the European Commission (EC).