EU's Reding confirms caps on roamed SMS: magazine

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The price of texting in Europe will set at a maximum rate of 11 euro cents per message under a European Commission proposal, EU telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding told German magazine Der Spiegel.

Telephone calls will have to be billed by the second and competition for accessing the internet abroad will be increased, Reding told Der Spiegel in a pre-released story to be published on Sunday.

The EU parliament and the 27 member states had agreed to the plans and the new caps would be in place by next summer, it quoted Reding as saying.

Reding was confirming a report based on EU sources published by Reuters on September 3.

(Reporting by Peter Dinkloh; editing by Christopher Johnson)