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China will launch a long-awaited price hearing conference this month to discuss ending the high roaming fees on mobile phones, the country's top telecommunications regulator said Wednesday.

Representatives of consumers, experts, mobile carriers and the China Consumers' Association will be involved in the conference in Beijing, the Ministry of Information said.

Chinese mobile carriers often charge users 0.60 yuan (8 US cents) a minute as a cross-province roaming fee, which most travelers and experts say is too expensive.

An upper limit for roaming will be set after the conference, the information ministry said on its Website, without providing details.

Industry insiders said the cap will probably be between 0.20 yuan and 0.40 yuan per minute.

"The roaming fees should be abolished as roaming involves hardly any costs to the carriers except for the fee calculation process for the carriers' provincial branches," said Sandy Shen, a telecommunications analy...

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