EU Head Scraps Roaming Draft, Says It’s Not Good Enough

The European Commission withdrew a draft proposal on roaming because its president, Jean-Claude Juncker, doesn’t think it was good enough, Eric Maurice of EU Observer reports. Commission spokesperson Alexander Winterstein promises that roaming charges are going to disappear on 1 June 2017.

I’m torn. On the one hand, I don’t think politicians should decided what private companies charge their customers. On the other hand, it’s about time roaming charges in the EU became history. We share a common market and it’s ridiculous that mobile use should be restricted to old national borders. I realise that I’m not consistent, but hey, I’m human.