Translation of "Bill shock" in German

One of the big problems for many years has been the issue of bill shock for a number of consumers when they return home to find a larger than expected bill.

I have voted for this report because the new regulation introduces preventive mechanisms and mechanisms for guaranteeing the transparency of prices for roaming data services so that citizens/customers have a better understanding of the charging method used, allowing them to control their costs and avoid any 'bill shock'.

I think that in the Internal Market Committee we can all be proud that we have reached a consensus on increased transparency and ways to finally eliminate the problem of bill shock.

Such a ceiling needs to be sufficiently low to address the 'bill shock' problem while being sufficiently above some current market offers to avoid disruption of competitive forces.

This makes it difficult for consumers to understand how much they will pay for data roaming and has resulted in many cases of "bill shock", where travellers unwittingly incur bills of thousands of euros for downloading data while abroad.

However, measures should be introduced to improve the transparency of retail prices for data roaming services, in particular to eliminate the problem of "bill shock" which constitutes a barrier to the smooth functioning of the internal market, and to provide roaming customers with the tools they need to monitor and control their expenditure on data roaming services.

Moreover, measures should be introduced to improve the transparency of retail charges for all data roaming services, in particular to eliminate the problem of ‘bill shock’ which constitutes a barrier to the smooth functioning of the internal market, and to provide roaming customers with the tools they need to monitor and control their expenditure on data roaming services.

However, measures should be introduced to improve the transparency of retail prices for data roaming services, in particular to eliminate the problem of ‘bill shock’ which constitutes a barrier to the smooth functioning of the internal market, and to provide roaming customers with the tools they need to monitor and control their expenditure on data roaming services.

Lack of transparency remains a key problem and it is far from certain that recent efforts by some operators to enhance transparency for this service will ensure that the problem of ‘bill shock’ is eliminated in all Member States.

Concerns over the level of charges for data roaming indicate that action is necessary in particular to improve transparency and eliminate bill shock.

Concerns over the level of charges for such services indicate that action is necessary in particular to improve transparency and eliminate bill shock, in the interests not only of consumers but also of the mobile operators.

While most operators opposed the extension of the Regulation and hence also rejected regulation of SMS and data roaming services, many acknowledged the need to tackle bill shock for data roaming services.

Equally, allowing the consumer to choose cut-off limits would provide a very effective tool for dealing with the problem of bill shock and should therefore also be proposed.

With regard to data roaming services, there was near consensus on the need to eliminate “bill shock” and concerns were expressed regarding high prices.

The continuing discrepancy between domestic data prices and roaming data prices remains high with a diverse pattern across Member States, leading to the ongoing possibility of ‘bill shock’ for consumers.

They can control their consumption and are protected against bill shocks.

Bill shocks are still a concern.

But, whilst we want to have a future development so that you can download, wherever you are, a film, a newspaper article or a photograph to send to your friends, today you have shocking bills.

In addition, in order to avoid bill shocks, mobile operators should offer all their roaming customers, free of charge, an opportunity to specify in advance a maximum financial limit for their outstanding charges for data roaming services, with an appropriate warning message when this limit is approached.

In addition, the proposal introduces price transparency and safeguard mechanisms for data roaming services, to enable customers better to understand and control their expenditure on these services and avoid bill shocks.

Moreover, and in order to eliminate ‘bill shocks’ when using data roaming services, a cut-off limit was introduced by the amended Regulation.

In addition, in order to avoid bill shocks, roaming providers should define one or more maximum financial and/or volume limits for their outstanding charges for data roaming services, expressed in the currency in which the roaming customer is billed, and which they should offer to all their roaming customers, free of charge, with an appropriate notification, in a media format that can be consulted again subsequently, when this limit is being approached.

In addition, in order to avoid bill shocks, mobile operators should define one or more maximum financial and/or volume limits for their outstanding charges for data roaming services, expressed in the currency in which the roaming customer is billed, and which they should offer to all their roaming customers, free of charge, with an appropriate notification when this limit is being approached.

Consumers and business travellers will continue to be protected from unexpected "bill shocks" for downloading data over mobile networks as monthly bills for data downloading are limited to €50 unless the customer explicitly agrees otherwise.