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Legislation to cut the cost of making calls from abroad
Published August 2007
Mobile phone companies role out a Eurotariff
British holidaymakers will lose out on cheap calls from abroad this summer because mobile operators are dragging their feet over new European Commission laws on the use of mobile phones abroad.
Orange, T-Mobile and 3, the British mobile operators, are all insisting that their customers will benefit from a new, cheap “Eurotariff” for roaming only from the legal deadline of August 30.
The Commission has launched a special website naming and shaming tardy operators. It aims to those mobile companies who have entered into the “spirit” of the new roaming laws, rather than just the letter, and rushed to enable customers to benefit from cheaper tariffs ahead of the legal deadlines that it has laid out. Brussels estimates that about half of mobile companies in the European Union have already activated the Eurotariff.
The European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, announced plans last year to introduce new legislation to cut the cost of making calls from abroad.
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