Europe Will Eliminate Mobile Roaming Rates
BERLIN - The European Commission will eliminate mobile roaming rates across Europe as part of a reform of the telecommunications market. Reform is considered a most ambitious plan in 26 years in the telecommunications market.
The plan would reduce consumer rates and simplify bureaucracy telecommunications company. The proposal must be approved by the 28 EU member states and the European Parliament before it can be applied.
Analysts said Europe was backward in broadband infrastructure, while telecom companies trying to address the decline in revenue. In the plan, the company is prohibited attractive rates for incoming calls from July 2014.
All roaming rates will be canceled in 2016. Telecommunications service provider will then charge a fee for consumers at the same price to all calls to the rest of the European Union or provide options for them to switch carriers when outside the country, without changing the SIM card.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the proposed reforms for both the customer and the operator. "Progress ... a single European market for telecommunications is important for the benefit of European strategic and economic progress," he told the BBC, edition Wednesday (11/9) local time.
The plan would harmonize regulations in all 28 EU member states. Commission said the industry still operates 28 national markets, not a unified market. This makes consumers and businesses faced with different prices and rules.
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BERLIN - The European Commission will eliminate mobile roaming rates across Europe as part of a reform of the telecommunications market. Reform is considered a most ambitious plan in 26 years in the telecommunications market.
The plan would reduce consumer rates and simplify bureaucracy telecommunications company. The proposal must be approved by the 28 EU member states and the European Parliament before it can be applied.
Analysts said Europe was backward in broadband infrastructure, while telecom companies trying to address the decline in revenue. In the plan, the company is prohibited attractive rates for incoming calls from July 2014.
All roaming rates will be canceled in 2016. Telecommunications service provider will then charge a fee for consumers at the same price to all calls to the rest of the European Union or provide options for them to switch carriers when outside the country, without changing the SIM card.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the proposed reforms for both the customer and the operator. "Progress ... a single European market for telecommunications is important for the benefit of European strategic and economic progress," he told the BBC, edition Wednesday (11/9) local time.
The plan would harmonize regulations in all 28 EU member states. Commission said the industry still operates 28 national markets, not a unified market. This makes consumers and businesses faced with different prices and rules.
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