An EU source has told Reuters that text messages sent by cell phone users when they are outside their home state in the European Union will drop 70 percent under a new proposal.

EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding “will outline plans on Tuesday that include extending price caps on roamed voice calls for another three years,” according to the report. Reding introduced price caps on roaming voice calls last year, which has proven to be one of the city’s most popular policies in recent memory.

The report said that a formal legislative proposal will be made in the autumn and could come into force by the summer of 2009. Roaming text messages are a huge market—they alone account for 2.5 billion messages per year.