Someone has finally done something about roaming charges
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Whether it's privacy issues or roaming charges, the EU is light years ahead of the U.S. in its consumer protections. Nothing ruins a vacation like a data-roaming bill when you return home.
Holidaymakers using their mobile phones in the European Union no longer need to fear sky-high bills on their return, thanks to a new cap on roaming charges which comes into force tomorrow. However, in other popular holiday destinations browsing just five web pages could cost as much as £8.
From 1 July 2013, British travellers in the EU will pay a maximum of €0.24 ($0.31) a minute to make a call, or €0.07 ($0.09) a minute to receive one, while sending a text message will cost €0.08 ($0.1). The cost of downloading one megabyte of data will be capped at €0.45 ($0.51), and no user can be charged more than €50 ($65.1) in one billing period for data usage.
Roaming charges have been falling for travellers within the EU since 2009, and are set to fall again in July 2014, with the European Commission working on scrapping these completely.
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