"As someone who has suffered from the high rate of mobile call charges from the continent, I would like to congratulate my Liberal Democrat colleagues in the European Parliament who have been instrumental in this new law, which will now protect holiday makers from Solihull and across the country.
"The major concerns throughout these negotiations have been to ensure that consumers are properly informed about the level of tariffs they are being charged when outside their home country, to have a choice of operators and services and to be protected against abusive charges that bear no resemblance to actual costs. Those people who are off to the continent for their holidays should now feel the benefits of the single market and will not be penalised simply for crossing a border.
