EU roaming charge cap cut by half
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
01.07.2014 12:28
From today, 1 July, the cost of using the internet from a mobile phone while traveling through the European Union has been slashed by over 50 percent.
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“It's a big summer sale courtesy of the European Commission! From 1 July 2014, the EU will cut the price caps for data downloads by more than half,” said a statement by the EC released on 24 June.
The new maximum roaming charge for outgoing calls, excluding VAT, will now be 19 cents (97 groszy in Poland) per minute, six cents (25 groszy) for outgoing text messages, and 20 cents (1.2 zloty) for a MB download of data.
“High premiums for roaming and intra-EU calls are an excessive irritant to business and leisure customers; they are a market distortion with no rational place in a single market – they teach users to fear their phones instead of using them,” the EC has said.
“The difference between roaming and national tariffs should approach zero by 2015,” the statement continues. (pg)