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 BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The EU said Tuesday it will force mobile-phone companies to scrap the "unjustified" high costs customers are charged for using mobile phones while traveling in Europe outside their home countries.
The European Commission said it would draft a law that could eliminate charges by next summer for receiving a call in another EU country, meaning travelers would be charged the same price they face at home. That could mean savings of 40 to 60 percent.
Europeans are punished with high phone bills simply for crossing a border inside the 25-nation EU, which hurts the growing numbers of people working and traveling outside their home country, said EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding.
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