Roaming zero, find the final agreement – Want …

The road to the abolition of the de cost of the international roaming is now finally free from all sorts of obstacles. What remains now is to wait pazientamene mid-June, when calling, texting and surfing outside the national borders, there will no more hexose extra tariff. A few months Europe will make a further step towards unification by allowing its citizens to communicate freely within the member Countries. In fact, the last little obstacle to the roaming zero was, today, fixed.

Parliament, Board and Commission have in fact found the agreement on the wholesale prices that operators will apply to each other to provide roaming services to the citizens. This was the last piece of a complicated puzzle but it is necessary to allow you to really get at the stop of the cost of roaming from next June 15. The agreement was found with a 90% reduction of wholesale prices in comparison to the lists that are applied today. A shear-sensitive justified by the fact that in this way the operators can decide to donate their extra costs on national rates, increasing. At the same time, however, the cutting could not go beyond because the fees must be sufficiently high to ensure that the operators of the visited Countries can recover their costs without increasing their fees.

in Addition, the rates so established must, however, allow the operators to continue their modernization of networks to allow users to enjoy always of stable connections in every part of Europe.

Numbers to hand, from the 15th of June next, the entry into force of the roaming zero, a Gigabyte will decrease from 50 € 7,70 euro. The drop in prices, however, will not stop. From the first of January 2018, this cost will drop to 6 euro and so on with yearly reductions until 2022 when 1GB will cost wholesale 2 euro and 50 cents. The front entry, a one-minute call will cost at 3.2 euro cents, whereas an SMS is 1 cent.

These costs, however reduced, will allow the operators to be able to, however, invest in the 5G that is the future of mobile networks.

Despite the importance of the goal, there have also been some controversies relating to the agreement on the part of minor parties of the european Parliament who express concern that this list does not lead, however, to an increase of the price lists in the national.