europeans will be able to use your cell phone in the 28 countries of the block without paying "roaming", the cost overruns imposed by the telephone companies when using the phone outside of the country of residence.
The measure will enter into force in June next year.
After withdrawing a proposal in early September that imposed a limit of 90 days to the "roaming" free, the European Commission withdrew yesterday and presented that you expect to be your final proposal: the use of the cell phone in the other 27 countries of the EU will not have an extra charge or time limitation, but the operating companies will be able to warn the customer –and in your case to make her pay for- if you consider using the "roaming" outside of your country of residence "abusive".
The new proposal you do not enter limits: neither of days or volume of use, but establishes "a strong safeguard mechanism for the operators against potential abuses," according to the executive arm of the EU. This mechanism will be based on the "principle of residence".
The vice-president of the European Commission and commissioner for Digital Market Andrus Ansip said this morning in the presentation of the initiative that is presented because "we need to ensure lower prices for all users in Europe so that they can fully use the new mobile services".
His colleague Günther H. Oettinger, commissioner for Digital Economy confirmed that the measure will be in force on the 15th of June 2017 "to all the people who travel regularly in the EU, while ensuring that operators have the tools to protect themselves against the abuse of the norm."
Brussels explained that the operating companies could be considered as abuse use much more –as measured in volume of data transferred – the cell phone when it is out at home, the inactivity of a SIM card for a long time and use only when leaving the country of residence or the subscription, and simultaneous use of multiple SIM cards for the same client when you are abroad.
In such cases the operators will be alerted to the users and will be able to apply maximum surcharges –according to the proposal community – 0.04 € per minute for calls, eur 0.01 for the text messages and 0,0085 euros per mega data. the And operators could suspend the new agreement, if they suffer losses exceeding 5% of their income for the use that users make of your cell phone abroad.
These safeguards are made according to the proposal, to avoid that users take measures which could harm the operators, as, for example, a belgian buy a SIM card with cheaper rates in the Netherlands and use it habitually in Belgium.
in Addition to tourists and travelers more or less usual, are left out of the possible retaliatory measures against the abuse of those who can prove that they work in one country and reside in another, expatriates and immigrants intra-residing in more than one country as usual, and students of the Erasmus programme, through which hundreds of thousands of europeans spend each year a school course in a university in another country in the bloc.
The idea of the elimination of surcharges for "roaming" is that europeans can use your cell phone in any of the 28 countries in the bloc as if they were at home. The british will benefit from this measure until your country leaving the EU.
After will not be covered by this legislation, so your phone operators can charge for using the phone in other european countries. The rest of europe will have to pay roaming when you travel to the United Kingdom as the country leaving the bloc.
The final proposal will be presented on December 15 after the European Commission listen to the reactions of the governments of the block and of the telecommunications regulators. Brussels says that since 2007 the prices for roaming have fallen 90%. The past month of July was reduced by 75%.
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