Roaming Data costs slashed by EU

The cost of downloading data while travelling around Europe is set to drop significantly, thanks to the European Parliament which voted to place caps on wholesale data roaming charges and impose caps on retail SMS charges.

These changes are set to take place on the 1st July.

The EU also voted for cuts in the price of mobile phone calls while roaming from one EU country to another EU country.

There are also changes in the pipeline that will make the operators change the way that the billing is done, such as charging by the second, which will help save the consumer money.

The EU suggests that the providers’ bill by the second from the thirty first second, which will save the customer around twenty four per cent.