EU plans to get tough on mobile roaming charges

MOBILE phone operators who charge customers three times more for their calls when abroad are facing a raft of new rules to force them to drop their prices.

Four years after the first steps to get them to stop ripping off customers with massive roaming charges, the EU is planning a new move against operators.

While making calls when abroad is now 73% cheaper than it was, the highly profitable companies are still making 400% profit on calls made and 500% on SMS and data and even more on roaming calls received.