EU based mobile operators slash roaming charges

EU based mobile operators slash roaming charges

Several European Union based mobile service providers have announced that they are slashing the roaming charges for the customers who travel within the EU.

This step comes after the EU put pressure on these companies to treat the EU as a single entity and lessen the charges for people traveling and calling within the EU countries.

The mobile companies who are offering these reduced charges include Germany’s T-Mobile, Britain’s Orange, Italy’s Wind SpA and Telecom Italia SpA, Norway’s Telenor SA and Sweden’s TeliaSonera Corp.

These companies have announced that they will cap the average wholesale rates they offer each other for providing roaming services at 45-euro cents a minute from October this year. This would be further slashed to around 36 euro cents a minute from October 2007.