"I am confident that with Parliament we will ensure that consumers travelling in the E.U. will save money when sending texts and surfing the Web with a mobile phone as of 1 July 2009. This would send a clear message of consensus that the E.U.'s single market is there to serve European citizens as well as businesses," Reding said.

Under the proposed re-drafting of the 2007 roaming regulation, roaming customers should also receive an automatic message with data roaming charges for the country they have entered. From summer 2010, consumers should be able to specify in advance how high their data roaming bill can go before the service is cut off -- a measure designed to put an end to what the Commission calls "bill shocks".

The cap of €1 per megabyte for wholesale fees should create a level playing field and stimulate competition, the Commission said.

Finally, the Commission, now with the support of the 27 member state governments of the E.U., wants to further reduce the caps on making and receiving phone calls while abroad.

In 2007 they were capped at €0.46 per minute for calls made abroad and €0.22 for calls received abroad. The plan now is to reduce these caps to €0.34 and €0.10 respectively, excluding value-added tax (VAT), by 1 July 2012.