Cut in mobile charges aboard planned for next year
Viviane Reding, the European Telecoms Commissioner has outlined a new proposal to cut the price of using mobile phones aboard. The plan will include cutting the cost of voice calls, as well as data and text messages and could be implemented as early as next July.
The European Parliament is due to vote on the new proposal in the new year, which could see the price that holiday makers pay for using their mobile phones drop by up to 60%. This would lower the price of a voice call from 36p to around 27p, the price of a text message from 23p to 9p and would allow customers to set limits on their data usage.
This is not the first time that the mobile phone operators have had roaming charge limits imposed on them; in September 2007 the EU limited mobile phone operators to charging 34p per minute for making calls and 17p for receiving calls. However, this only covered voice calls; the new proposal will take into account text messages and data usage charges as well.
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