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Mobile roaming

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Living in the northPartly delivered70/100

Cross-Line mobile interconnection has operated since 11 July 2019, with CyTA and Epic named as the operators on the government-controlled side. A rate of EUR 0.29 per minute was reported at launch. Roaming charges still apply: the north sits outside the EU roaming regulation.123

Basis and sources

Legal anchor Regulation (EU) 2022/612 (roaming); Article 16 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights

Sources for this criterion

  1. 1. Twentieth report on the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 866/2004, covering 1 January to 31 December 2023A — primary / documentary · European Commission · 2024-07-04
  2. 2. Cross-Line mobile interconnection established, 11 July 2019C — testimonial · Cyprus Mail · 2019-07-11
  3. 3. Turkish Cypriot Rights Issue Register and Legal Framework Register (Cyprus Rights reference corpus)D — open source · Cyprus Rights · 2026-08-24

Status partially addressed / undocumentedWeight 2/5Score 70

Sources

  1. Twentieth report on the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 866/2004, covering 1 January to 31 December 2023A — primary / documentaryEuropean Commission · 2024-07-04The European Commission's twentieth annual report on implementation of the Green Line Regulation, covering 2023.COM(2024) 265 final, Brussels, 4 July 2024https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/6d75c643-ca97-44ff-a2d0-7d452a729423_en?filename=COM_2024_265_1_EN_ACT_part1_v3_0.pdf
  2. Cross-Line mobile interconnection established, 11 July 2019C — testimonialCyprus Mail · 2019-07-11A Cyprus Mail news report on the establishment of a cross-Line mobile phone interconnection between the two sides of Cyprus.Cyprus Mail, 11 July 2019 — first call over the cross-Line mobile arrangement; south-side operators named (CyTA, Epic); roaming rate EUR 0.29/min reportedhttps://archive.cyprus-mail.com/2019/07/11/mobile-phone-links-established-between-two-sides/
  3. Turkish Cypriot Rights Issue Register and Legal Framework Register (Cyprus Rights reference corpus)D — open sourceCyprus Rights · 2026-08-24Cyprus Rights' own internal reference corpus of registers tracking Turkish Cypriot rights issues and the applicable legal framework.Cyprus Rights reference corpus, compiled 24 August 2026: internal/reference/rights-issue-register-turkish-cypriot.md and internal/reference/legal-framework-register.md. Cited for duty-bearer positions as the registers record them and for documentation-gap statements; each register entry carries its own underlying sources