March 29 (SeeNews) - Montenegro's government has approved the signing of an agreement on lower roaming fees in the Western Balkans, it said.
The agreement is planned to be signed at the Western Balkans Digital Summit 2019 in Belgrade on April 4 and 5 by the representatives of the governments of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Serbia, the Montenegrin government said in a statement on Thursday.
Last month, a Serbian government official said the Western Balkans countries will sign an agreement to scrap roaming fees as of June 30, 2021.
A transition period will start on July 1, 2019 when the roaming fees for calls between Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and North Macedonia will be lowered by 25%, while for Albania the reduction will be much bigger than that.
"As of the summer of 2019, the roaming price will stand at 0.70 euro ($0.79) per megabyte. A year later, in 2020, the price will fall to 0.45 euro and in 2021 it will be further reduced to 0.20 euro," the European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, Mariya Gabriel, said in May 2018 during a meeting of representatives of the telecommunications ministries of Serbia and North Macedonia in Skopje.
($ = 0.8909 euro)