Mobile Phone roaming charges to end in EU - in 2017

The deal was announced earlier today and will eventually put an end to the often steep, always irritating, charges for connecting to the internet while outside your home country. The deal will come into force in June 2017 and will mean travellers can use the internet on their mobile phone and pay as much as they would back home. Roaming fees will initially go down on 30 April 2016, when the current retail caps will be replaced by a maximum surcharge of €0.05 per minute for calls, €0.02 for SMSs and €0.05 per megabyte for data. Anrijs Matīss, Latvian Minister for Transport, exclaimed, "This is a great success for the European Union and the Latvian presidency”, as it is for business travellers and tourists alike.