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"Mr President, I was responsible for this regulation on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, and I naturally voted in favour of it. These days, we are not accustomed to expecting good news from the European Union, but this regulation that we have voted on is one piece of good news for EU consumers because it will be cheaper for them to use their mobile phones next summer. The regulation is to enter into force at the start of July and will cut price ceilings to at least half their current levels by 2014. It will introduce requirements for structural changes. From the beginning of 2014, consumers will be able to choose, if they so wish, a separate roaming operator, in addition to their home operator.
The regulation will also impose an obligation on telephone operators to inform consumers by text message when they are approaching the price ceilings that they themselves have set, even when they are outside the EU. In this way, we aim to prevent bill shock, something that has been unsettling EU citizens in recent years.
Some telephone operators have already acknowledged this necessity in the past year and have offered their customers cheap roaming packages. When structural changes take effect, there is good reason to hope that prices will come down with the creation of markets, and that new price caps will no longer need to be set in the future."@en1
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