Press Release: Digital Agenda: lower roaming prices as of 1st July

With effect from 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012 EU mobile operators will again be obliged to lower retail prices for roaming calls in line with EU rules first introduced in 2007 and amended in 2009. Consumers opting for the EU-regulated 'Eurotariff' will pay no more than 35 cents per minute for calls made and 11 cents per minute for calls received while abroad in the EU. This is the last in the series of regulated price cuts under the current EU Roaming Regulation, which expires end June 2012.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background Information: Brussels eyes end to roaming surcharges http://www.europeansources.info/record/brussels-eyes-end-to-roaming-surcharges/

EurActiv, 1.7.11: EU to impose further cuts on mobile roaming prices http://www.euractiv.com/infosociety/eu-lower-mobile-roaming-costs-news-506110

BBC News, 1.7.11: Cost of Euro mobile roaming falls http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13988279

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