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Roaming rates are to be lowered across the continent on 1 July for the third time since 2012 as a result of European Commission regulation, reports Rzeczpospolita. Call rates will drop by about 20 per cent, text messages by 24 per cent, and the cost of multimedia messages and mobile Internet services will be reduced by about 50 per cent.
“Lowering, and soon probably abolishing, roaming fees for those travelling abroad will give people more freedom to use telecom services”, Małgorzata Gaj, head of the Polish telecommunications regulator, told the daily. Rzeczpospolita notes that Brussels plans to eliminate roaming fees in 2015. According to European Commission estimates, lowering the rates will increase the number of mobile users using services abroad by 300 million.
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