EU announces deal to end all wireless roaming charges starting June 2017

End of roaming charges: EU negotiators agreed on wholesale prices, the final piece to make it happen

As the last step towards the end of roaming charges by 15 June 2017, representatives of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission agreed on how to regulate wholesale roaming markets (the prices operators charge each other when their customers use other networks when roaming in the EU).

EU negotiators agreed on the following wholesale caps:

• 3.2 cents per minute of voice call, as of 15 June 2017
• 1 cent per SMS, as of 15 June 2017
• A step by step reduction over 5 years for data caps decreasing from €7.7 per GB (as of 15 June 2017) to €6 per GB (as of 1 January 2018), €4.5 per GB (as of 1 January 2019), €3.5 per GB (as of 1 January 2020), €3 per GB (as of 1 January 2021) and €2.5 per GB (as of 1 January 2022).

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