EU-turn on cheaper mobile calls
The European Commission made a dramatic U-turn on their pledge to force mobile phone operators to reduce the costs of using phones abroad, announcing weaker measures.
A new law will cap the profits mobile firms can make on calls made in EU countries, but the cap will only apply to the wholesale
Ceri Stanaway, Which?, said: 'The fact that consumers have to pay to receive calls is one of the most unfair things about using mobile phones abroad because it is something people can't control.'
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