article_snippet: British holidaymakers face three more years of being ripped off by extortionate mobile phone 'roaming charges' after Brussels failed to scrap them as promised.
article_snippet: British holidaymakers face three more years of being ripped off by extortionate 'roaming charges' for using their mobile phones abroad .
article_snippet: A recent study showed that the average British person spends an extra £120 on their mobile phone on each trip abroad.
article_snippet: Current charge caps are €0.24 (20p) per minute for calls, €0.08 (7p) per text message and €0.45 (37p) per megabyte of data, all excluding VAT.
article_snippet: From July 2014 those will be reduced to €0.19 (16p) per minute for calls, €0.06 (5p) per text and €0.20 (17p) per MB of data.
article_snippet: Receiving a text in Europe has been free since 2009.