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ZitZot: Roaming fees drop under new EU law

Posted on 01.07.2009 at 16:04 in Tech News by Martin

Beginning Wednesday, European mobile phone users can cross national borders in Europe and know they won’t be slammed with a huge cell phone bill when they return home. Roaming charges for cell phone and texting messages are dropping.

A new single tariff, in the works since 2007, covers all European Union countries and the charges for many consumers for some messages will plunge. Roamed text charges will drop from 28 European cents to 11 cents and roamed mobile calls will also drop, but not as much as text messages. Calls will drop from 46 cents to 43 cents. Sending a megabyte of data will cost 85 cents — about one-half the previous data price.

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    July 1st, 2009 | 16:31

    That MILF is calling me…

  2. Poppa!
    July 1st, 2009 | 16:56

    When do we get a Prime Minister of Europe?

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    July 1st, 2009 | 18:01

    I WOULD TOTALLY LET HER ROAM FREE ALL OVER MY SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE!

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    July 1st, 2009 | 18:21

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    July 1st, 2009 | 18:28

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    July 1st, 2009 | 19:36

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  7. KinG
    July 1st, 2009 | 19:48

    #6

    LOL

    ont: huge change for the text, but no big deal for the calls :/….

  8. nobody
    July 1st, 2009 | 20:34

    And also this change now means it is allowed to charge for RECIEVING calls to your mobile phone, which wasn't allowed before in Sweden at least.
    Great development there.
    Stupid meddling politicians…

  9. stimpie
    July 1st, 2009 | 22:01

    that sucks for sweden and is good for the rest of us

  10. General Snus
    July 2nd, 2009 | 03:24

    nobody: Huh? Are you telling me before tis, if I had a US phone and was roaming in sweden, someone in the US could call my US #, and I could answer the phone in Sweden, and not be charged?!?!?@!@? Basically free international calls?

  11. joe
    July 2nd, 2009 | 07:48

    General Snus , in EU we don't call that free calls. It has always been that way. Person making the call pays for it. Why should person receiving call be charged?

  12. dhp
    July 2nd, 2009 | 13:13

    http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/07/01/the-roaming-rip-off-is-over-pull-the-other-one/

    in part:

    "While the EU has now capped the cost of text messages to 9p (down from 24p), that’s still 9p for transferring only 140 bytes (0.000133514MB) of data. That’s a princely £674 per MB."

  13. phd
    July 2nd, 2009 | 20:12

    So basically you (and "pcpro") are trying to make us stop using 160 characters per SMS?

    Then again… the use of £ is a telltale sign for stupid english people who still don't use € and who are driving at the wrong side of the road. ;)

  14. Hoi
    July 2nd, 2009 | 21:35

    its about TIME

  15. A.Bundy
    July 2nd, 2009 | 23:35

    joe, you have to understand how an american corporation works here. they will lobby for anything and everything, just to screw you over and take every penny they can.

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