Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Europe plans to
end mobile phone roaming charges.
Even though citizens
of the member states aren’t required to go through immigration control and the
goods are mostly traded without duties within the member states, there still are
regulations that are not friendly to mobile phone users when they cross the
border.
Currently, the telecommunication
services are still provided on the basis of 28 national markets, rather than
one unified market, so that mobile phone users are charged the prices and mobile
phone operators are regulated by the rules of the state. Furthermore, there is
another frustrating practice called “roaming charge”, a connectivity service fee
charged in a location that is different from the location where the service was
registered, which makes phone calls or internet connections in a different
country much more expensive than the home location.
If or how soon the
new proposals by the EU commission are approved?
Enjoy reading and
learning about this new initiative to unify the E.U. telecom market.
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