The EU is to announce plans to reduce the cost of sending international text messages.
Later today, the European Commission plans to introduce a cap on prices that companies charge for texts.
EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding said that the 2.5bn text messages sent every year by roaming customers in the EU cost over 10 times more than domestic texts.
EU citizens should be free to text across borders without being ripped off, Ms Reding said.
The commissioner is being backed by the European Regulators Group of the EU's 27 national telecoms regulators. A roamed text currently costs an average of 29 cent.
