EU will scrap the mobile phone roaming charges

Brussels: If the law enforces the roaming fee for mobile phone users across the European Union (EU) 27 member block. "You will not be offered another eu country with roaming charges when traveling from 15 June 2017," the statement on thursday in the eu de Sade. "Every existing or new contract that has roaming services will change," added new rules, saying it covered the data services, voice calls and SMS messages.

"Roam like at Home" is the slogan adopted by the EU. The European Commission's (EC) spokesperson Margaritis Schinas said that "after celebrating 30 years of our Erasmus programme, earlier this week, today we are demonstrating another tangible way the EU can provide benefits to its citizens." EC President Jean-Claude Juncker said the end of roaming charges was a genuine European success. "The EU is about bringing people together and making their lives easier," he said.

For a decade, EU officials have been working to reduce, and ultimately end, "excessive" roaming charges that telecoms operators imposed on their customers each time they crossed an EU internal border, either on holiday or on business trips. As part of this plan, roaming prices have decreased by more than 90 per cent since 2007. Most of the mobile telecoms companies operating in the European markets have already complied, with the exception of a few such as Spain's Telefonica and Italy's Tim, who continued till Thursday before eliminating their roaming surcharge.