As you can see, there are not only disadvantages of the bureaucracy at EU level. The international roaming fees were reduced with the assistance and pressure from EU Commission significantly, so that it now no longer so critical, if someone is calling while you are abroad or when you call from the European countries to your home country. Some people still remember the days when SMS was free. The mobile operator realized pretty quickly that the text messages are a good source of income and made this charge. The price for a message in comparison with the costs for the transmission of this message is to high. If you still travel abroad, then it is would be significantly more expensive. This will be apparently changed very soon, because the EU commission urged the operators to make prices lower. If they fail to do so, the EU commission would decide about the prices of text messages by itself. They did it once, as some operators ignored the order to make roaming fees lower.
This is a great development. I travel quite often within Europe and therefore I would benefit particularly on this regulation. The only question is when my providers follow this order.
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