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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11716

2 February 2017
SECTORAL POLICIES / Digital
Inter-institutional agreement on wholesale roaming
Brussels, 01/02/2017 (Agence Europe)

The European Union has taken another step towards ending roaming costs. Following retail prices in 2015, Parliament and Council representatives reached an informal agreement on Tuesday 31 January to cap wholesale market prices and gave their support to the idea of a progressive decrease so that by 2022 the cost of data transfers would be €2.50 per gigabyte (GB).

The negotiations lasted long into the night (see EUROPE 11715). By the small hours of the morning, however, reactions appeared...

Contents

EUROPEAN COUNCIL
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
SECTORAL POLICIES
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
EXTERNAL ACTION
INSTITUTIONAL
NEWS BRIEFS