EU Roaming Charges For Mobiles Now Abolished
As of June 15th, roaming charges for mobile phone use in the EU will no longer be enforced. What this means is that anyone who travels in the EU, be it on business or for pleasure, will be able to text, call and connect on their mobiles and pay the same price as they would back at home.
Joseph Muscat, prime minister of Malta, president of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani and president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker issued a joint statement, saying: “Over the last ten years, our institutions have been working hard together to fix this market failure. Each time a European citizen crossed an EU border, be it for holidays, work, studies or just for a day, they had to worry about using their mobile phones and a high phone bill from the roaming charges when they came home. Roaming charges will now be a thing of the past.”
As you’re sure to already know if you’ve been on lots of business trips in the past, it’s very easy to return home and be faced with a nasty bill just for using your phone overseas. Luckily, this is no longer the case – which means that those who do have to travel for work and make use of VoIP business phone systems won’t have to worry about the bills they’re running up.
Instead, they can simply focus on the task at hand, safe in the knowledge that they’re not going to be charged heavily simply for doing their jobs.