Wednesday, October 13, 2010

No more bill schocks - data roaming in European Union

Calling or receiving calls in different country in Europe is still expensive. This issue has been trying to be resolved by European Commission since three years.In 2007 EU adopted Roaming Regulation (717/2007) that fixing maximum charges.This regulation reduced the charges up to 70 %. It was quite unexpected step for all mobile companies but it wasn't enough for customers. They still couldn't say that using mobile phone in different European country was cheap. They can't say it even now but the situation is getting better. From 1st of July 2010 also prices for downloading and uploading data have been reduced.Providers have to warn customers before they reach maximum monthly fee for the data- roaming (it is 50 euro/month). It's a next step for EU.


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