EU mobile phone users to benefit from roaming caps

European business travellers and holidaymakers can look forward to lower rates on mobile phone calls while abroad in the EU once new price caps go into effect across the bloc starting on June 30.
Once the new regulations on so-called roaming rates go into effect on June 30, operators will have one month to make new offers to customers at below EU-set price caps on calls between EU countries. Under the rules, operators cannot charge EU subscribers making cross-border calls within the 27-nation bloc more than 49 euro cents (66 US cents) a minute in the first year of application while receiving a call could cost no more than 24 cents.