With the new EU roaming, what will I pay for calls within a foreign country?

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Starting on June 15th 2017, when roaming withing the EEA (all EU countries, Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway), you will not be charged more than the price for a domestic call on your home network if you call any fixed or mobile number within the EEA. If you have a subscription plan with included minutes, these minutes will also be valid when roaming. You can not be charged for receiving calls.

So, the answer to your question is A.

One point where the regulation seems unclear is how to charge calls to service lines using so called shared cost services (like area codes 0845 in UK or 0180 in Germany). For example my cell phone subscription includes all calls to regular fixed line or mobile phone numbers, but has a relatively steep charge per minute for calls to shared cost numbers. There are even different charges depending on the type of shared cost service. If I roam in another EEA country and call a shared cost service in that country or another EEA country, it is not obvious from the wording in the regulation if the call should be covered by my included minutes, or if my operator can charge for it and at which rate.

International calls from your home network to other EEA countries are not covered by the regulation and can be charged as your provider likes.

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Your home provider will pay the local provider because it is the local provider which provides the network you are using to reach the other phone.

Plus, be careful, EU said that roaming cost will be abolished but it didn't say anything from usage from your home country to another EU country. Most likely this will be at providers' discretion...

EDIT: your carrier should not charge anything if you make a call from EU country if your subscription at your home carrier includes voice calls. Same goes for texts. If they are not included, then you'll be charge the same price as domestic call.

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