Europe’s mobile phone operators regularly charge users for more instance than they actually use when it comes to expensive calls made away from home, European regulators said Wednesday.

Users are billed more “by a significant margin” for calls they manufacture abroad considering many operators charge for each minute of a signal instead of by the second, the European group of national telecoms agencies said in a report.

That means public are paying for 24 percent more minutes than they invent,

and 19 percent more than they receive.

The EU last year capped the costs of cellphone calls made and received abroad; costs soon after dropped by 60 percent.

Regulators said operators are not dropping prices beyond that, with average retail prices at or just below the maximum limit in two-thirds of EU nations.

Prices for sending or receiving text messages abroad have barely moved, it said, even though the high cost of using […]

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