Two wonderful pieces of news for mobile phone users are that the two bugbears of absurdly high Internet access and roaming charges are going to be cut.
A committee of the European parliament voted yesterday to support EC plans to cut the cost of mobile phone calls between EU member states by 70 per cent.
Also yesterday, two network operators, T-Mobile and 3, are offering unlimited data access for £5 a month in the case of 3, and £7.50 in the case of T-Mobile.
The roaming decision now needs to be voted on by the full parliament and then ratified by member states, but the EC says it wants to have the cuts in place by the time of the summer holiday season.
The Internet access move is key because it means that the other operators will almost certainly have to follow suit and then competition will bring the charges down.
Operators have, apparently, simply got fed up with the fact that people will not access the Internet via a mobile at the exorbitant current tariffs.
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