Mobile companies told to stop ripping customers off

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Mobile phone companies have been told to stop "ripping off" EU citizens calling home as they travel the union's 27 countries.

EU communications commissioner Viviane Reding, who has regularly expressed her displeasure over the cost of roaming calls, told the Mobile World Congress trade show that following her introduction of legislation to make calls cheaper, she was targeting SMSs and data transfer costs.

Threatening to intervene in the situation unless companies themselves took action, she said: "The deadline is July 1st, and based on the offers on the market on that date we will decide ... whether or not further regulation will be required."

She added that the EU "cannot accept that mobile operators make up to 20 times more profits on roaming customers than on their domestic customers."

Ms Reding said that returning home to a phone bill with roaming charges from abroad on it was a "horror".

She urged the companies to move to an "all you can eat" system where consumers pay a fixed amount for whatever they use.

Skinttariffs offer alternative ways to telephone the Uk from abroad without paying roaming charges by buying a global sim card.

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