EU may end all roaming charges

wolfbln · 15-07-2015, 16:59

UPDATE: Good News

Today the EU Parliament approved the new roaming regulations which is not a big surprise as they wanted to get rid of the surcharges even earlier.

New details about the regulations for 2016 and 2017 have emerged:
Source: http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/pr...aming-charges/

For the regulation effective 2017:

1.) There will be a Fair Use Policy in place from 2017. This is to prevent "abusive use" of roaming whatever this may be. The new limits of this FUP will be established in Dec 2016.

2.) The new fee for overuse which is going to be imposed can't be very high as it "cannot be higher than the maximum wholesale rate that operators pay for using the networks of other EU countries."

For the regulation effective 2016:

1.) A new rate of incoming roaming for calls will be set at the end of 2015: For calls received, the maximum surcharge will be the weighted average of maximum mobile termination rates across the EU.

2.) The existing caps of 2014 will stay in place for the new rules in 2016: Also after 30 April 2016, the sum of the domestic price and any surcharge cannot in any case be higher than the current retail caps (€0.19 per minute for calls, €0.06 for texts and €0.20 per megabyte of data).

So the fear of price increases for calls within the roaming country and a third country within the EU as told in my contribution above seems to be unfounded.

peterdoo · 22-01-2016, 16:37

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Originally Posted by wolfbln

UPDATE: Good News
For the regulation effective 2016:

1.) A new rate of incoming roaming for calls will be set at the end of 2015: For calls received, the maximum surcharge will be the weighted average of maximum mobile termination rates across the EU.

2.) The existing caps of 2014 will stay in place for the new rules in 2016: Also after 30 April 2016, the sum of the domestic price and any surcharge cannot in any case be higher than the current retail caps (€0.19 per minute for calls, €0.06 for texts and €0.20 per megabyte of data).

If I see correctly, the price for the incoming calls in roaming inside EU/EEA from April 30th 2016 on has been set at €0.01 per minute plus VAT:

https://twitter.com/eu_commission/st...36305782833152

The other surcharges are as expected.

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wolfbln (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 206 Join Date: 14 Jul 2014 Country:	15-07-2015, 16:59 UPDATE: Good News Today the EU Parliament approved the new roaming regulations which is not a big surprise as they wanted to get rid of the surcharges even earlier. New details about the regulations for 2016 and 2017 have emerged: Source: http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/pr...aming-charges/ For the regulation effective 2017: 1.) There will be a Fair Use Policy in place from 2017. This is to prevent "abusive use" of roaming whatever this may be. The new limits of this FUP will be established in Dec 2016. 2.) The new fee for overuse which is going to be imposed can't be very high as it "cannot be higher than the maximum wholesale rate that operators pay for using the networks of other EU countries." For the regulation effective 2016: 1.) A new rate of incoming roaming for calls will be set at the end of 2015: For calls received, the maximum surcharge will be the weighted average of maximum mobile termination rates across the EU. 2.) The existing caps of 2014 will stay in place for the new rules in 2016: Also after 30 April 2016, the sum of the domestic price and any surcharge cannot in any case be higher than the current retail caps (€0.19 per minute for calls, €0.06 for texts and €0.20 per megabyte of data). So the fear of price increases for calls within the roaming country and a third country within the EU as told in my contribution above seems to be unfounded.