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E.U. to End Cellphone Roaming Charges in 2017

posted by janrinok on Wednesday July 01 2015, @01:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the progress dept.

AnonTechie writes:

European officials agreed on Tuesday to outlaw cellphone roaming charges, beginning in 2017, when people travel across the 28-member bloc. The change is part of long-awaited overhauls aimed at improving how Europeans connect to and use mobile services.

The new rules, which have pitted many of the region's telecommunications operators against consumer groups, also include so-called net neutrality regulations intended to ensure that Internet service providers and other companies cannot discriminate between different services that run on their data networks.

Policy makers hope the changes will jump-start the use of mobile services in Europe and foster greater economic activity across the region, which in many ways is still divided by national boundaries.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/01/business/international/eu-roaming-charges-net-neutrality.html

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by mojo chan on Wednesday July 01 2015, @07:50AM

    by mojo chan (266) on Wednesday July 01 2015, @07:50AM (#203657)

    They mean when travelling. It used to be that people didn't take their phones on holiday with them, or had special ones for business trips. Since it has been known that this was coming for a long time many operators have started offering free roaming in most EU countries anyway. My own operator, 3, does that. This just makes it mandatory for all operators.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Wednesday July 01 2015, @09:08AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Wednesday July 01 2015, @09:08AM (#203682) Journal
    Not just roaming in the EU. Roaming in the US on 3 is cheaper than getting a local SIM, to the extent that they added something to their T&Cs saying that you had to use the SIM in the UK at least once every three months, because people were buying them solely for use in the US. Roaming in Canada is still expensive though.
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