Telefónica, O2 UK's parent company, has announced a huge cut to the cost of accessing the Internet (data) from your mobile phone while abroad in Europe:


For comparisons sake, current O2 UK contract customers pay between £6 and £7 (depending on country) for a single megabyte (MB) of data. Pre-Pay (pay-as-you-go) users had to pay considerably more, tipping the scales at £15 for 1MB.

The new pricing means that both groups should now be charged £3 per megabyte, while a data bundle of 50MB will set you back £35 per month. Naturally this is still extremely expensive by comparison to UK 'Mobile Broadband' (3G) prices but roaming charges have always been a lot more difficult to balance out due to the different networks involved.