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(43) These may be certain ‘Value-Added Services’ or ‘Special Rate Services’. Under the Commission’s Proposal of 24.2.2021 for a Roaming Regulation (Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on roaming on public mobile communications networks within the Union, COM/2011/0402 final – 2011/0187 (COD)), Value-Added Services (VAS) are to be understood as those provided with the use of, for example, premium-rate numbers, freephone numbers or shared cost numbers, and are subject to particular pricing conditions at national level (see Recital 36 of that proposal). Therefore, PRS are only one category of VAS, which is a broader concept covering also hotlines/helplines calling which is free of charge for consumer.
Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.