Phone roaming charges to fallfollowing EU vote

Mobile phone roaming charges will fall again from July following a European Parliament vote.

The round of cuts are the latest step toward reducing the gap between domestic and “foreign” call rates to virtually nothing by 2015. As well as cutting the cost of making calls abroad and receiving calls from home, the decision cuts the cost of “data roaming” when holidaymakers want to download information.

The cuts involve reducing the cost of making a mobile call from another EU country from about 35c a minute to 29c. This will fall to 19c in 2014.