The EU will reduce the price of roaming through six months.

European mobile operators reduce the cost of their services when roaming. The changes take effect in July 2009 in 27 EU countries. It is reported BBC News.
The initiator of lower prices for cellular operators roaming is evrokomissar on telecommunications Vivienne Reading (Viviane Reding). November 27 this year, the new rules work in roaming were endorsed by the relevant ministers of EU member states.
In accordance with a maximum cost of sending SMS-messages when roaming at 11 Euro cents. At this time sending a message to roaming costs by an average of 29 Euro cents. Representatives of the European Commission stressed that the real cost of an SMS-messages when roaming is less than one Euro
European operators, members of the association GSM Association, were left disappointed by the new prices for roaming services. They believe that regulation of retail prices will reduce investment in new services. It's also possible that the reduction of roaming tariffs operators offset the increase in the cost of other services.
Representatives of the European Commission believed that lowering the cost of services operators will be able to compensate for the increased traffic. In particular, lower prices for roaming calls by 50-60 per cent led to an increase in voice traffic at 30-35 per cent.