Belgrade, (MINA-BUSINESS) – The Western Balkan countries are expected to sign a regional roaming agreement at the Digital Summit organized in Belgrade this week.
The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), which supports this event, says that the people of the Western Balkans (WB), business people, travellers and students, are in unison when it comes to bringing down the roaming charges in the region – they are looking forward to it and see it as a great benefit.
“For business people, math is simple. Seventy percent of them believe removal of roaming charges in the Western Balkans would have positive impact on their businesses and spur the trade,” says a press release issued by the RCC.
According to a survey focusing on the citizens of Sarajevo, Belgrade, Tirana, Podgorica, Skopje and Pristina, everybody agrees that roaming charges are a hurdle when traveling anywhere abroad.
“People shared with us their stories on high phone bills when traveling due to roaming prices, increasing and surpassing their entire travel budget, claiming they will not use it again and hope the prices will go down,” the RCC says.
The new Regional Roaming Agreement is part of the deliverables in the area of Connectivity of the WB Multi-annual Action Plan for the Regional Economic Area (MAP REA) that the region’s leaders committed to at the WB Summit in Trieste in July 2017 and the priority agenda endorsed at the 2018 EU-Western Balkans Summit in Sofia.
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