Legal formalities are completed: free roaming will be introduced in the EU from June 15, 2017.

The Council of the European Union finally approved the abolition of paid roaming in the territory of the EU countries. This is reported by the website of the Council of the EU.

"Since June 15, 2017. Mobile users traveling to other EU countries will be able to call, send text messages and use the Internet without paying any additional costs, "it was informed..

Roaming without surcharge will also work in Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, which are not EU members, but are included in the Schengen zone - but later than in the EU itself.

Recall, cancellation of paid roaming was finally agreed by the European Commission in January 2017.

It is established that wholesale rates of operators should not exceed 3.2 euro cents per 1 min. Telephone call and 1 euro cent for 1 SMS.

The wholesale tariffs for data transmission services will be phased out over a period of five years.

In June 2017 g. Roaming costs 1 GB of traffic should be 7.7 euros, from January 1, 2018. - 6 euro, from 1 January 2019. - 4.5 euro / Gb, from 2020 g. - 3,5 euro / GB, from 2021 g. - 3 euro / GB and from 2022 - 2.5 euro / GB.

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