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Lithuania watchdog sets new roaming surcharge ceilings

Lithuanian telecommunications regulator RRT has set new caps for EU roaming surcharges, to be applied by Lithuanian mobile operators in the EEA states from 15 June 2020 to 14 June 2021. lithuania roaming surcharge

RRT, having received the requests of UAB Bitė Lietuva and UAB Teledema and in accordance with Regulation (EC) No. In accordance with the provisions of Article 6c of 2015/2120 , these service providers have re-established the charges (maximum permissible national tariff surcharges) for international roaming services when consumers travel within the EU and the EEA.

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These operators are only allowed to charge roaming charges at the level necessary to compensate for the losses they incur in order to ensure that the prices of local services do not increase. It will be up to the operators to decide whether and to what extent to apply them, but they will not be able to exceed the limit set by RRT.

UAB Tele2 and Telia Lietuva, AB, regarding the application of additional taxes in the period from 2020. June 15 until 2021 June 14 RRT did not apply to RRT, therefore the same service tariffs as in Lithuania apply to the users of these operators’ services traveling in the EU and EEA countries.

Lithuanian operators are applying less and less surcharges to traveling service users, and the surcharges of other operators are further decreasing (the maximum additional data charges set for Bite decrease from 1.03 Eur / GB to 0.82 Eur / GB, for Teledema – from 1.95 Eur / GB to 1.64 Eur / GB), Lithuanian consumers will use data transmission services throughout the EU even cheaper. lithuania roaming

From 2020 June 15 until 2021 June 14 maximum additional retail roaming charge lithuania roaming surcharge

From 15/06/2020 to 14/06/2021

Maximum additional retail roaming charge allowed (excluding VAT) *

UAB BitÄ— Lietuva UAB Teledema UAB Tele2 Telia Lietuva, AB
Calls – Make calls does not apply 0.7 ct / min does not apply does not apply
Calls – Answer does not apply 0.7 ct / min does not apply does not apply
SMS does not apply does not apply does not apply does not apply
Data transfer 0.82 Eur / GB

 

1.64 Eur / GB does not apply does not apply

* These maximum amounts of additional charges were approved by RRT, taking into account the terms of service specified in the operators’ requests, which were used to calculate possible losses. In the event of a change in these conditions, RRT has the right to require the operator to recalculate the applicable additional charges or to terminate their application.