Roaming callscapped at 24p

By The Newsroom

Published 8th Apr 2012, 17:28 BST

LONDONDERRY mobile phone customers will pay no more than 24 pence per minute to make roamong calls from July as a new EU cap kick in.

Foyle MLA Colum Eastwood, welcomed the news that the EU has moved to cap roaming charges for calls and downloading data.

The caps will be enforced on mobile firms by July of this year. Consumers will pay no more than 24p per minute to make a roaming call and no more than 59p per megabyte downloaded.