EU To Get Standardized Roaming Rates Soon
By Will Park on Thursday, March 15th, 2007 at 4:14 pm PST In Announcements, DoCoMo, O2, Orange, Rumors, Telecom Italia, Vodafone
European Union member states get a bit of good news today. Out-of-control roaming surcharges within the EU could be reigned in as soon as June of this year. Viviane Reding, European Information and Media Commissioner, stated that she plans to cap roaming surcharges to 50 Euro cents (about 66 dollar cents). A spokesman further provided a figure of 25 euro cents as a cap for incoming calls while roaming. The European Parliament will vote at the end of May.
Via: Yahoo! News
May 23rd, 2007 at 1:50 pm
[...] lawmakers have made the final move in slashing cross-border roaming rates for EU tourists and business people - by up to 70%. Austrian euro-deputy, Paul Ruebig, said that [...]