Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-06-18-Speech-1-075"
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"Mr President, Commissioner Reding, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to start by offering Commissioner Reding my warmest congratulations. Just as she predicted, the Regulation on roaming is to enter into force by summer. This represents a great achievement on the part of the Council, Parliament and the Commission. We have solved a problem together, and can be proud that the Regulation will enter into force under this German Presidency.
Last Friday, when I flew out from a German airport, I saw the first brochure from German operator T-Mobile presenting its mobile roaming rates under the protective tariff. It is clear that this is working. We are also proud that, if European consumers conclude new contracts before their holidays, these European protective tariffs will of course apply from the first day of entry into force of the Regulation. It was hard work pushing this through, but we have managed to do so before the summer, and I believe that the development of competition in this field will also be extremely positive. It will take us another three months to achieve transparency in the field of broadband, too; and so more time will be needed to achieve it for the use of UMTS. We should attempt as soon as possible to offer a ‘flat rate’ or a standardised tariff in this field, too, so as to enable comparison of the costs of broadband across Europe and worldwide.
In Africa, for example, there are already 15 countries among whom no roaming charges are levied. In Europe, too, there are already telecommunications operators who do not charge a roaming tariff across a number of borders, and there are also operators offering special charges on their own network in a certain region. It is clear, therefore, that there is a very positive trend in competition. Accordingly, for the future, we can envisage having billing systems that charge customers on a bit basis, and we can envisage promoting bilateral agreements at international level that enable us to enjoy this broadband technology at reasonable prices."@en1
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