What is international roaming?
When you travel to a foreign country, your mobile phone keeps working: you are roaming. You can make & receive mobile phone calls, write text messages (SMS) or surf the internet and download content. Your calls, SMS and other data services are operated by a foreign network because your home provider does not normally operate in that country. For providing this service, the foreign network operator charges your home operator and your home operator passes this additional cost on to you.
More transparency and cheaper roaming prices for EU citizens :
The EU Roaming regulation was adopted in 2007 and introduced caps on roaming prices ("Eurotariff") and imposed certain information obligations on operators, ensuring that mobile phone subscribers pay affordable and transparent roaming prices when they are travelling across the EU. The Eurotariff set maximum prices for phone calls made and received while abroad. These maximum prices apply to all consumers unless they opted for special packages offered by operators. In July 2009, revised rules were adopted that cut voice calls roaming prices further and introduced new caps on SMS tariffs ("Euro SMS tariff"). In addition, as of 1 July 2010, consumers are protected by an automatic safeguard against data roaming bill shocks. The new
Roaming eurotariffs up to July 2011
Click on your country and compare tariffs
Compare tariffs for:
- sending an SMS
- making and receiving phone calls
- using data services
See additional information (difference between pre-paid or post-paid; inclusion of non-metropolitan territories ; EEA countries join the club).
see sample roaming tariffs for six selected destination countries
Find your operator
Did you know? New EU roaming rules enter into force 1 July 2012. For example the new price caps for mobile data roaming expected to save you a lot of Euros. How are you going to save money with the new roaming prices? Share your saving examples with us via Youtube-comments or directly on our DAE Facebook page: http://facebook.com/DigitalAgenda
Choose a country to find its mobile phone operators and links to their international roaming tariffs pages.
See additional information (difference between pre-paid or post-paid; inclusion of non-metropolitan territories ; EEA countries join the club).
For more info on what the European Commission is doing related to roaming check our latest press release http://bit.ly/LQphTU and our Digital Agenda for Europe website: http://ec.europa.eu/roaming...
