Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2016-10-04-Speech-2-728-000"
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"Mr President, October 27, 2015 was a very important day for the EU. That was the day that this Parliament voted to end mobile charges and remove one of the biggest obstacles to the completion of the single market.
I think it helped to showcase the benefits of EU membership, it ended major bills when people came home and encourages, therefore, people to travel. It boosts tourism and makes it easier for businesses to work in the single market. I sympathise with the people of the UK who, as a result of fear mongering and post-truth-era populist campaigning, may not get to reap the benefit of this.
However, I am pleased also with the clarification on fair use. The idea that roaming should be limited to 90 days, or 30 days consecutively, was not acceptable and I am pleased that this now is being changed. We cannot have a watered-down roaming free Europe.
I also want to commend my colleague here alongside me, Viviane Reding, who has kick—started our next big challenge: ending intra-EU phone charges. It makes no sense in the current situation to have free roaming and yet to keep intra-EU phone charges, which is not acceptable. We have to work hard to get rid of this rip-off as well, and only when we have that completed, the end of roaming and the end of intra-phone charges within the EU, can we say that we are moving correctly to complete the digital single market."@en1
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