European Union wants roaming charges removed for mobile users

The European Union has said that they would be forcing mobile-phone companies to scrap the “unjustified” high roaming rates charged to their customers traveling within the EU countries. They are planning to bring in a law that would eliminate these roaming charges for consumers traveling within the specified countries.

This would affect mobile companies operating in as many as 25 European Union nations and they have no plans to force the companies to alter the rates for other countries around the world.

EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding said that the people in the EU are suffering due to these unjustified policies followed by the mobile companies operating in their member countries. She said: “Today it is only when using your mobile phone abroad you realize that there are still borders in Europe.”

The mobile industry group GSM Association insisted last week that such a law was not required as the competition itself was driving the prices of mobile connectivity low.