LOCAL EURO MP WELCOMES REPORT AS ROAMING CHARGES SET TO BE SLASHED

5.00.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Thu 12th Apr 2007

Roaming charges set to be slashed (photography: Stewart Arnold)

Euro MPs on the European Parliament's Industry Committee have today backed the widely publicised report into mobile roaming charges that will cap charges on calls made and received abroad.

Local Liberal Democrat Euro MP Diana Wallis has welcomed the final report saying:

"The current situation where consumers are charged a premium simply for crossing a border is simply unacceptable. I think everybody has a story of how ludicrous the cost of receiving or calling from a mobile phone abroad has been become.

"This is not how the internal market should work.. This report will go a long way in turning this round and I hope as a result that holidaymakers in the region will no longer be paying mobile phone bills larger than the cost of their holidays!"

"The Committee proposed a price cap that is not so low that it becomes a standard charge, it will enable competition at even lower prices. If it works and proper competition is created then regulation will be discontinued. However, if MEPs see no movement and roaming SMS and data continue to be overcharged, there will be further measures."

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