Roaming - Questions and Answers
The cost of using mobile phones, smartphones and tablets when travelling within the EU will fall sharply from 1 July this year, under a provisional agreement between MEPs and national governments to be voted by Parliament on Thursday 10 May.
On 28 March, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers reached a first-reading agreement on the new regulation on roaming, which includes price ceilings lower than those set by the European Commission in its original proposal, as requested by the Industry, Research and Energy Committee. For the first time, data roaming, which is of particular importance when using a Smartphone, will also be subject to price caps.