The cost of sending SMS messages will be capped at 0.11 (8.7p) per text, if a European Commission proposal is approved.
This was confirmed by European Union telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding in an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel.
Other stipulations are that phone calls will have to be billed by the second and competition for accessing the internet abroad will be increased.
The EU parliament and the 27 member states had agreed to the plans and the new caps would be in place by next summer, Reding was quoted as saying.
Reding was confirming an earlier report over capping costs that was published on 3 September.
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