EU Parliament Slashes Mobile Roaming Rates for Cross-Border Calls
By Will Park on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 at 1:50 PM PST In Announcements, Events, Services
EU 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 those using their mobile phones when traveling throughout the European Union will no longer have to worry about roaming charges that are “greater than the cost of their flights or hotel room.”
The new measure has been a hot topic over the past year and was finally approved in a landslide vote today. Come June 7, EU telecommunications ministers will meet in Luxembourg to ratify the new measure and make roaming regulation into law – just in time for the summer travel period.
EU Telecommunications Commissioner, Viviane Reding, stated, “This means that already from this summer, mobile phone customers will start benefiting from substantially reduced roaming charges when traveling from one EU country to another,” adding that, “Europe’s internal market will finally become truly borderless, even for mobile phone bills.”
via: yahoo
