{"id":451545,"date":"2011-07-01T08:46:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T08:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/01\/cost-of-euro-mobile-roaming-falls\/"},"modified":"2011-07-01T08:46:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T08:46:47","slug":"cost-of-euro-mobile-roaming-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/01\/cost-of-euro-mobile-roaming-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of Euro mobile roaming falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"48.9831932773\"><span><span>1 July 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>04:46 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The cost of making and receiving mobile phone calls while travelling in Europe has come down again.<\/p>\n<p>From today, operators cannot charge more than 32p per minute (plus VAT) for outgoing calls, and 10p per minute (plus VAT) for incoming calls.<\/p>\n<p>The new tariffs are the latest in a series of annual price reductions forced on the mobile industry by the European Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Brussels has said it aims to equalise roaming and domestic charges by 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Price regulation was <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/6921932.stm\" title=\"BBC News story on introduction of regulation\">introduced in 2007<\/a> by the then commissioner for information society and media, Viviane Reding.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the maximum call charge has been reduced by approximately 6% per year.<\/p>\n<p>A group of UK mobile operators &#8211; O2, Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile &#8211; attempted to challenge the Commission&#8217;s price-cutting agenda, taking their case to the European Court of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>However, their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/10262871\" title=\"BBC News story roaming challenge dismissed\">complaint was dismissed<\/a> in June 2010.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/technology-13988279\" title=\"Cost of Euro mobile roaming falls\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cost of Euro mobile roaming falls<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 1 July 2011 Last updated at 04:46 ET The cost of making and receiving mobile phone calls while travelling in Europe has come down again. 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