Britons will face higher charges for using their mobile phone usage overseas until 2017, it has been confirmed, after 12 hours of wrangling between European Union (EU) member states finally yielded a deadline for the end of the 'bill-shock' era.
Roaming charges were supposed to be scrapped this year. But to the surprise of consumer bodie, the EU reneged on its plans.
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It’s thought the scheme was derailed by member states whose hard-hit economies are heavily dependent on tourism.
However, the new proposal is for an EU-wide ban on international roaming charges to come into force from June 15th 2017.
The commission also agreed to a universal drop in the price of roaming in all 28 EU nations in the interim.
From April, data will be capped at five euro cents (4p) per megabyte, with calls pegged at a maximum rate of five cents per minute. Texts will fall to two cent per message.
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