Concrete proposals for the **abolition of roaming charges** as early as July 2014: the competent European Commission is also dealing with **network neutrality**.
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It seems the road to simplifying the telecommunications world has been well set and a step away fromabolishing roaming charges.
In fact, a package of reforms aimed at reforming the sector has been officially announced by the relevant EU Commission, with special attention to the fixed-line telephony branch.
For the end customer, this will mean that, probably starting next July 2014, “roaming will no longer have a significant impact on their phone bill.
The proposal is indeed to eliminate the costs for incoming calls, when abroad and answering a call.
As for outbound traffic, the Commission initially proposes the creation of unique tariff plans that will not differentiate between using the telephone service in one’s own country or abroad.
Furthermore, it has been established that operators, in the absence of appropriate advantageous tariff profiles in this regard, must allow consumers to choose a new fallback operator, once abroad, even simply via SMS, in order to still achieve savings.
Obviously, these measures will be valid within the countries belonging to the European Union.
The total abolition of additional roaming charges for outgoing calls, instead of the application of a single plan as just mentioned, is instead foreseen for July 2016.
Other interesting points of this reform, which will come into force in the coming months, concern greater guarantees for the user when entering into a contract with a telephone operator, whether in the fixed or mobile sector.
Contracts, in fact, will no longer have to exceed 12 months of mandatory duration, thus allowing the customer to consider termination without incurring problems or further difficulties.
Furthermore, the concept of net neutralityhas been established even more clearly: telecommunications companies will no longer be allowed to limit or block services – this is the case, for example, with limitations imposed by some providers on VoIP traffic – nor will they be able to place limits on certain network content: it will therefore always be necessary to guarantee a quality standard, without discouraging the use of the connection for certain services.
The Commission’s path is not yet finished but will soon lead to major changes throughout Europe.
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