1. This Regulation provides for a common approach for ensuring that users of public mobile communications networks, when travelling within the Union, do not pay excessive prices for Union-wide roaming services in comparison with competitive national prices, when making calls and receiving calls, when sending and receiving SMS messages and when using packet switched data communication services.
This Regulation thereby contributes to the smooth functioning of the internal market while achieving a high level of consumer protection, data protection, privacy and trust, fostering competition, independence and transparency in the market and offering incentives for innovation, consumer choice and the integration of persons with disabilities, while fully complying with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
This Regulation sets out the conditions for wholesale access to public mobile communications networks for the purpose of providing regulated roaming services. It applies both to charges levied by network operators at wholesale level and to charges levied by roaming providers at retail level.