EU prepares to abolish mobile roaming charges starting mid-2017

European lawmakers reached an agreement on Wednesday that foresees the abolition of mobile roaming charges across the EU starting in June of this year.

The idea is to cap wholesale charges that telecom operators are currently paying each other, thus forcing users to pay additional roaming charges when connecting to operators based abroad, on top of their talk time and data consumption.

The new initiative is dubbed “Roam like at home” and it currently has a target start date of June 15. Although the entirety of the European Parliament and EU member states ...