Editing Roaming (section)

=== Roaming within the EU ===
{{Main|European Union roaming regulations}}
In the [[European Union]], regulation on roaming charges began on 30 June 2007, forcing service providers to lower their roaming fees across the 28-member bloc. It later also included [[European Economic Area|EEA]] member states. The regulation set a price cap of €0.39 (€0.49 in 2007, €0.46 in 2008, €0.43 in 2009) per minute for outgoing calls, and  €0.15 (€0.24 in 2007, €0.22 in 2008, €0.19 in 2009) per minute for incoming calls - excluding tax.<ref name="test1">[http://www.euractiv.com/en/infosociety/new-caps-roaming-charges-place-august/article-164430 "New caps on roaming charges in place for August"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230172359/http://www.euractiv.com/en/infosociety/new-caps-roaming-charges-place-august/article-164430 |date=2017-12-30 }}, 8 June 2007</ref> Having still found that market conditions did not justify lifting the capping of roaming within the EEA, the [[European Commission|Commission]] replaced the law in 2012. Under the 2012 Regulation, retail roaming capping charges expired in 2017 and wholesale capping charges expired in 2022. In mid-2009 there was also an €0.11 (excluding tax) maximum price for SMS text message included into this regulation.

On 11 June 2013, the European Commission voted to end mobile roaming charges for the first time.<ref>{{cite web|last=Williams |first=Christopher |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/telecoms/10119159/EU-to-end-mobile-roaming-charges-next-year.html |title=EU to end mobile roaming charges next year |publisher=The Telegraph |date=2013-06-13 |access-date=2013-06-30}}</ref>

Following a European Commission vote on 15 December 2016, roaming charges within the European Union were to be abolished by June 2017. While the European Commission (EC) believed that ending roaming charges would stimulate entrepreneurship and trade, mobile operators had their doubts about the changes.<ref>{{cite web|last=Mináriková|first=Katarína  |url=http://spectator.sme.sk/articles/view/53924/20/roaming_charges_to_drop_end.html |title=Roaming charges to drop, end |publisher=The Slovak Spectator |date=2014-05-12 |access-date=2014-06-08}}</ref>

On 15 June 2017, Regulation (EU) 2016/2286, nicknamed "Roam like at Home" and having been signed by the European Parliament and Commission in May of the same year came into force. It abolished all roaming charges within the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.<ref>{{cite web|title=New Roaming rules for travellers in the EU: “Roam like at home” for 10 more years
|url=https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_22_4198}}</ref>