Europe defines roaming ‘fair use’ parameters for operators

With mobile roaming charges set to end completely next year the EC has published details guidelines that it hopes will prevent abuse of the system.
One of the biggest concerns from operators when the process of scrapping roaming charges across the European Union was the spectre of being undercut domestically by cheaper foreign operators. The fear was that domestic consumers would, in effect, permanently ‘roam’ by buying their phone service from the cheapest provider, regardless of lo