EU falters on roaming fee cap The move would have driven down call and data costs for European customers while abroad, but was unpopular with telecommunications companies, who would have seen a reported 2 per cent knocked off their revenues. "Roaming fees will still end - debate is over how, not whether," she wrote on Twitter. Her spokesman added in a statement: "It's been our intention since 2010 to eliminate the premiums associated with roaming and that remains our intention." Reuters reported that major companies such as Orange, Telifonica and Deutsche Telekom had all sent senior representatives to meet Kroes and discuss their problems with the proposals last month. Wholesale roaming fees are paid by telecommunication companies to route calls and data traffic through foreign networks, with this cost ultimately being passed on to individual users. Capping the fees they can charge each other would help create a single market, which the European Commission believes would make networks more competitive, pushing them to catch up with the US and Asia. The new proposals are expected to be made public on 10 September, and will have to be approved by the 28 EU member states and the European Parliament before they become law.