America Roams Far Behind Europe

摘要

Phones tend to cost more upfront in Europe than they do in the U.S., but the service keeps getting cheaper. Late last year, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to bar by the end of 2015 the continent's wireless carriers from levying roaming fees on subscribers traveling abroad. On March 4, European Union governments took a softer approach, saying they'd like to extend that timetable to at least 2018, but there's already been some progress. Regional carriers' roaming data rates fell by more than half from 2013 to 2014, according to the commission's figures.