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Roaming holiday: Roaming charges are to fall again in July after the European Parliament approved new measures capping the amount mobile operators can charge.

Prices for sending e-mails or web browsing while roaming will be capped at €1 per Mb and will fall to 50 cent per Mb by 2011 – 20 times less than some Irish operators currently charge. A call ceiling of 43 cent a minute for outgoing calls and 19 cent a minute for incoming calls is also to be introduced. These will fall further – to 35 cent a minute for outgoing calls and 11 cent for incoming calls by 2011.