Relief is in sight for thousands of Australians who travel to Europe and want to call home after European carriers decided to drop the price of global roaming costs.
Relief is in sight for thousands of Australians who travel to Europe and want to call home after European carriers decided to drop the price of global roaming costs.
Effective immediatly the cost of making and receiving mobile phone calls while travelling in Europe is set to fall by more than 50%.
From today, operators cannot charge more than 32p per minute (plus VAT) for outgoing calls, and 10p per minute (plus VAT) for incoming calls.
The new tariffs are the latest in a series of annual price reductions forced on the mobile industry by the European Commission.
Brussels has said it aims to equalise roaming and domestic charges by 2015.
A group of UK mobile operators – O2, Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile – attempted to challenge the Commission’s price-cutting agenda, taking their case to the European Court of Justice.
However, their complaint was dismissed in June 2010.
