European Union Caps Roaming Fees

The European Union has given in and approved of the new caps on voice, data and text messaging roaming fees that were proposed last month. This means that the plan will go into action starting July 1, 2009. Roaming rates will be capped at:

• 0.43 EUR (US$0.56) per minute for outbound calls
• 0.19 EUR (US$0.25) per minute for inbound calls
• 0.11 EUR (US$0.14) per message
• Automatic 50 EUR (US$64.93) data roaming cap that can be optionally disabled