EU caps mobile phone roaming charges

"For seven years, the EU has been huffing and puffing about the charges mobile phone operators have been levying on customers who use their phones in other European countries. Now the European Parliament's Industry Committee has voted overwhelmingly in favour of compulsory limits on the charges imposed on 'roaming' customers," writes the daily. "MEPs are also demanding that phone companies send automatic text messages detailing rates to each user. The full EU parliament will vote on the proposed regulation next month. EU ministers will then be asked to give their final approval in June. ... The reality is that the operators have been taking advantage of their customers, who are often simply glad that their phone works abroad at all. What, some people are wont to ask, has the EU ever done for us ? Soon anyone who uses a mobile phone on the Continent will have a simple and powerful answer to that question."

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