Mobile roaming charges to fall again 29 euro cents (24 pence) per minute to make a call 8 cents (7p) to receive a call 9 cents (8p) to send a text message 70 cents per megabyte (58p) to download data or browse the internet whilst travelling abroad, charged per kilobyte used. South West England Conservative MEP Giles Chichester said: "This is a piece of EU legislation which is of practical assistance to consumers and, in particular, to once-a-year holidaymakers abroad. What is more, it will help small businesses seeking to expand sales abroad. By putting a cap on the amount mobile operators can charge for roaming data, we will be saving many people from a nasty surprise that can spoil the end of their holidays. He added: "We would have preferred not to legislate and to let the mobile companies trim rates voluntarily - but the operators failed to budge." East of England Tory MEP Vicky Ford said: "Excessive charging for roaming causes consumers and operators to lose out. Many consumers who have faced high charges just switch off their data roaming and don't access services at all. Marzena Lipman, policy manager at Consumer Focus, welcomed the new data-roaming cap on bills when using a mobile elsewhere in the EU, but said the same safeguard should apply at home. Data-roaming caps are particularly good news, as data-use can incur some of the biggest and most unexpected bills for consumers. However it is unfair that customers using their phones at home in the UK do not have a similar level of protection. We'd like to see this gap in protection closed voluntarily by mobile phone providers or for the regulator to tackle this issue. According to a Mobile Workforce report due to be published later this month by Wi-Fi network iPass, one in three mobile users has experienced so-called "bill shock" from unexpected data roaming charges. The report is based on a survey of more than 1,500 people. Which? executive director Richard Lloyd said: "This looks like good news for consumers but it's come too late for over 1.4 million mobile phone customers who were affected by bill shock in the last six months alone. We want to see an end to hefty data charges for consumers wherever they are in the world and clearer information from phone companies about what they charge for services in the UK and abroad.