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The Australian Communications and Media Authority will release modified rules for international mobile roaming later this year, based not on the International Mobile Roaming Standard, but one more attuned to service providers with similar, more flexible rules.

The organisation last September completed a review of the IMR Standard which was introduced in 2013 to avoid consumer "bill shock" due to high international mobile roaming charges.

In a statement, the ACMA said its review found the IMR Standard had reduced bill shock, with complaints falling significantly.

But, it said, data from the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman indicated complaints had risen recently. Complaint numbers were still relatively low, but disputed charges could be high, indicating risks to consumers.

The ACMA said its review found IMR regulation was needed, but more flexible rules could be drafted in the light of changes to rules on mobile phone use overseas.

For example, the review concluded, providers could be given flexibility in the wording used to advise consumers about maximum charges for IMR services, and how the information was delivered.

The review also concluded that mobile network operators and mobile virtual network operators should continue to provide information to consumers when they landed in another country.

The ACMA said Communications Minister Mitch Fifield had agreed to its proposal to change the form of regulation from an industry standard to a service provider determination with a similar but more flexible set of rules.

The change would allow the ACMA to more easily update the existing the rules.

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Sam Varghese

Sam Varghese has been writing for iTWire since 2006, a year after the site came into existence. For nearly a decade thereafter, he wrote mostly about free and open source software, based on his own use of this genre of software. Since May 2016, he has been writing across many areas of technology. He has been a journalist for nearly 40 years in India (Indian Express and Deccan Herald), the UAE (Khaleej Times) and Australia (Daily Commercial News (now defunct) and The Age). His personal blog is titled Irregular Expression.

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