European Union telecoms chief Viviane Reding has angered consumers after suggesting mobile phone users should pay to receive calls as well as make them, writes the Daily Mail.

"Despite previous moves to reduce high costs for mobile phone users, the Telecoms Commissioner has done an apparent u-turn by suggesting she would propose that Europeans pay to receive calls - a common practice in the United States, China and Singapore.

Ms Reding is also seeking to reduce the cost of text messaging for Europeans while they are abroad from their home country."