As reported by RIA Novosti, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media Viviane Reding said this. "The majority supports the European Commission's proposals on SMS and data roaming," she told journalists during a meeting of the EU Council on Telecommunications.
The EU executive proposed to cap at 11 euro cents (excluding VAT) the cost of a roaming SMS message, instead of the current average tariff of 29 cents, and also to set a maximum price for data transmission for operators (wholesale tariff) at €1 per megabyte. Currently, one megabyte costs an average of €3.6.