Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Lower European Mobile Prices Start Today

New price curbs on the cost of using a mobile phone while outside a home state in the European Union took effect today.

The price for a roaming text has fallen to EUR0.11, from around EUR0.29.

Downloading data while roaming now costs a maximum of EUR1 per megabyte at the wholesale level compared with previous costs of about EUR1.68.

An earlier price cap of EUR0.46 per minute for an outgoing voice call has also fallen to EUR0.43, while the cap on voice calls received abroad has fallen from EUR0.22 to EUR0.19.

In addition, mobile operators have been forced to charge for calls by the second after the first half minute, instead of rounding up to the nearest minute, whilst operators must introduce per-second billing from the first second for calls received abroad.

The caps will further fall to EUR0.39 for calls made and EUR0.15 for calls received while roaming from 1 July 2010, and to EUR0.35 and EUR0.11 from 1 July 2011.

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