Mobile phone tariffs have been reduced across all 27 of the EU states. The maximum charge for outbound calls to another EU country is now 37p and receiving call costs are also down to 17p per minute.

Additionally calls will now be billed by the second after a duration of half a minute.

The cost of sending a text is also reduced to 10p.

The new reduced tariffs will be particularly good news for businesses who have previously incurred heavy costs when staff travel across the EU states.