European roaming charges will end in 2014
This is still at the very high-level discussion stage. The key phrase:<p>"“They agreed that this time next year we will have got rid of these charges,” a Brussels source said"<p>Also, it's not clear how this would be implemented. For example, Vodafone in the UK lets you pay £3 a day and use your calls, texts and data from Europe. Would that be acceptable? What happens to the smaller MVNOs who have been responsible for driving down prices who now need to make a whole lot of roaming agreements? Given that data is regularly more useful when roaming than calls, will this directive require free data roaming too or is it excluded?<p>If I was a pan-European mobile operator, I'd have been lobbying for this. It will cost them very little to provide the service, mostly some modifications to their billing system. For those operators that only have national presence, they'll need to start making alliances and integrate systems with other operators in countries they're unfamiliar with in a different language.<p>Original article: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/telecoms/10119159/EU-to-end-mobile-roaming-charges-next-year.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnol...</a><p>(Edited to make clearer why a pan-European operator would support this)