EU Roaming Regulation Faces National Hurdles, Delays

14 December 2011

EU’s Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes is under intense pressure from member states that are threatening to delay or water down her proposal to abolish cross-border tariffs on mobile phone calls within Europe by 2016.

Read more »


Europe Sees further Voice Roaming Price Cuts

2 July 2011

Yesterday the European Commission’s last price cut under the current roaming regulation came into effect. The maximum retail rate for voice roaming is now 35 cents per minute for calls made and 11 cents per minute for calls received while abroad in the EU.

Read more »


EC to Slash Roaming Rates

13 May 2011

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.

Read more »


Lower Roaming Costs in EU

7 July 2009

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.

Read more »


Europe: Reduced Costs for Texting Abroad

23 April 2009

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.

Read more »


Roaming Rates to Become Cheaper in EU

29 August 2008

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).

Read more »


Progress on EU Telecoms Reform Package, Says Reding

16 June 2008

In a speech delivered after the gathering of EU Telecoms Ministers in Luxembourg, EC Commissioner Mrs. Viviane Reding said that there is a consensus about the need to maintain and strengthen competition in the European telecoms market and that all ministers see the need to ensure more regulatory consistency.

Read more »


.

Switch to Mobile View