/spandiv style="float:right;width:305px;display:inline;font-size:13px;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;line-height:16px;" img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/53798000/jpg/_53798722_74417508.jpg" width="304" height="171" alt="Man talking on phone on beach"span style="width:304px;"The European Commission wants to make roaming rates the same as domestic rates by 2015/span /div div class="story-feature related narrow"Related Stories/div p class="introduction" id="story_continues_1"The cost of making and receiving mobile phone calls while travelling in Europe has come down again./p pFrom today, operators cannot charge more than 32p per minute (plus VAT) for outgoing calls, and 10p per minute (plus VAT) for incoming calls./p pThe new tariffs are the latest in a series of annual price reductions forced on the mobile industry by the European Commission./p pBrussels has said it aims to equalise roaming and domestic charges by 2015./p pPrice regulation was a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6921932.stm" title="BBC News story on introduction of regulation"introduced in 2007/a by the then commissioner for information society and media, Viviane Reding./p pSince then, the maximum call charge has been reduced by approximately 6% per year./p pA group of UK mobile operators - O2, Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile - attempted to challenge the Commission's price-cutting agenda, taking their case to the European Court of Justice./p pHowever, their a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10262871" title="BBC News story roaming challenge dismissed"complaint was dismissed/a in June 2010./p pAlong with the lower rates for phone calls, the commission also reduced the wholesale rate of mobile data from 80 euro cents (72p) to 50 euro cents (45p) per megabyte./p pWhereas the price cap on voice calls applies directly to the way consumers are billed, the data changes only affect what operators charge each other. There is an expectation, rather than obligation to pass-on the savings./p pOperators are compelled to place a 50 euro (pound;45) cap on users' data consumption, in order to avoid unexpectedly high bills. Customers who wish to continue their data roaming can request to have the limit removed./ppThis article is from the a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk" title="Link to BBC News"BBC News website/a. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/e6I4_2M2TGKcfWdmti9WDa5ncW8/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/e6I4_2M2TGKcfWdmti9WDa5ncW8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/e6I4_2M2TGKcfWdmti9WDa5ncW8/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/e6I4_2M2TGKcfWdmti9WDa5ncW8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BbcNewsTechnologyFullFeed/~4/5-A2qHPyqug" height="1" width="1"/