Poles to pay less for the EU mobile roaming

The European Commission announced roaming charges around the whole of Europe have been slashed. Polish consumers using their mobile phones in Eurozone will see reductions in their bills from April 30, 2016. “The new cap is set at €0.01 (excluding VAT) per minute of call received, almost five times cheaper than the [earlier] cap of €0.05 per minute (excluding VAT). This completes the set of maximum roaming surcharges that consumers will pay from April 30, 2016 until June 2017 when roaming surcharges are finally abolished in the EU,” the European Commission explained on its website. “From 30 April 2016, we will pay less for roaming calls. This is partly thanks to Polish initiatives to standardise and reduce the cost of connections between European Union countries,” the Office of Consumer Electronics (UKE) said in a statement. UKE added that calculating the fees while calling from abroad will be “simpler” and “also brings about a reduction in roaming prices”.