One Single Tariff
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One Single Tariff (official name "Single Communication Tariff Act") is a European Citizens' Initiative against roaming in Europe. One Single Tariff's precise objective is to erase all barriers to phone calls within the EU by ending all roaming fees. It is the second European Citizens' Initiative to have been registered, on May 10, 2012, just one day after the initiative Fraternité 2020, which was presented by the European Commission on Europe Day. To be successful, it had to collect 1 million signatures before December 3, 2013, but it failed.[1]
Although the EU has built an integrated Single Market at the continental level, phone companies still mainly operate at the individual state level. Regulations are passed by the European Union but so far a discrimination remains between consumers in the EU. Regulations are passed by the European to cap these fees, without banning them entirely.
Founders
The initiative was founded by Vincent Chauvet, former Thomson Reuters journalist in Brussels, while in his last year of study at HEC Paris and SciencesPo, and Martin Wittenberg, communication consultant, former ALDE staff member and embedded correspondent to the campaign of Barack Obama in 2008.[2]