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Europe wants to end roaming charges
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION wants to end mobile roaming charges to bring down to zero the difference in data charges between domestic and international calls.
Neelie Kroes, European commissioner for digital agenda, has called for the EC's roaming regulation review to tackle the issue of vastly inflated rates for international data and phone charges.
Roaming data charges throughout Europe including the UK are included in this review and Kroes said, "I think we can all agree that such pricing examples bear little relation to the true cost of supplying the service. I want the gap between roaming and domestic prices to approach zero, and the sooner, the better."
She said this is necessary in order to promote a truly competitive single market for all aspects of telecoms services in Europe. Commissioners had noted that mobile downloading costs a Belgian subscriber almost 30 times more abroad than it does at home.
"For me a true digital market is one in which effective competition ensures that citizens, customers and businesses do not experience substantially different services or costs when they pass a border," she added.
Kroes also said that a true single market is one where the price differences between voice, SMS and data relate only to the actual cost of providing these different services. µ
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The EU officially denotes the whole of the EU as national because the idea is to see the EU like that, and obviously then you can't have all the roaming crap, and it's also obvious that it severely hampers business and the concept of a unified EU if you can travel all over without a passportcheck and work anywhere but do need to suddenly pay huge money when you move a mile and make a call, it's illogical.
But there remains the question if the whole concept of unity is really viable, the UK already has a million special exemptions and all the different languages will always remain an issue, and since they attempt to add more and more non-western countries to the EU any coherence that there was is rapidly evaporating too.
It's about time the EU stopped the Telco's to make absurd amounts of money over the back of people.
The price of mobile-phone is by far cheaper then landlines!!
Still they charge premium costs.
Get them Neel!! Bring them to standard landline-costs, as the real costs are LESS!!
Do you think Tesco Mobile built it's own cell towers ? Idiot.
Roaming charges are applied across the same telephone network,e.g. Vodafone in the UK and Germany not just cross networks. For cross network connections there will be reciprocate agreements to carry each other traffic, so a one cell tower will never be able to get anyone else to do a deal with them without paying the other guys a shed load of cash.
More regulations to create a symbiont market.
We should all start using free roaming VOIP only. That way, we can use cheap local available connectivity, but we can still be reached everywhere.
Almost any roaming charges call are 90% bullshit, as international calls with landlines are much, much cheaper. Even landline chanrges are bullshit, given the exponential growth of network capacity.
Moreover, most of the actual cost of these charges seems to be due to the cost of billing themselves.
The bills to customers are just as high as they can without the customers fleeing, or cause them to reduce their calling.
So it is ok for you to send an international SMS from USA T-Mobile for 10 cents (yes, that is US$ 0.10) and to pay 50 cents (US$ 0.50, or 5x more) for the same SMS when you send it from USA but using Telenor roaming?
Don't be retarded!!!
Roaming is just a stupid tax for idiots like you. Normal people are sick of having to get local or multi-SIM cards when they travel so they don't get ripped off, and thanks God that someone finally got the clever idea to say "Enough!" to the greedy cell phone network providers. It is time for cell network to have the same fate as landline network -- whoever built it everyone can use it, differentiate yourself from others by quality of service and VAR, not by price.
Basically, she's saying that if someone puts up a single tower and sells phones with a monthly plan then every other provider needs to provide roaming on their towers? Company X could sell a million phones a month without ever investing in the infrastructure to support them.
So, why would any one provider ever want to build their own towers? Why not just wait for everyone else to build them? <--
Three cheers and a tiger! Mrs. Kroes has more guts than the rest of the EU Commission altogether.
Next: let's put an end to phony "flat rates" that come with a monthly cap.
SHE IS ONE of the few SHINE STARS between all the crapy european politics.
The vast majority of the EU Politics work for lobbies, Thanks a lot, this lady work for the people, the community, for all.
Thanks a lot Kroes, Never stop !
We love you !