Cool, just as Brexit looks to be falling apart under its own incompetence.
What a fantastic comment. Well thought out, and spot on! Well done you. Please tell us your opinions on Trump as well!
Europe mostly ends mobile roaming fees from today
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Re: Europe mostly ends mobile roaming fees from today
#12So the cost incurred will be passed on to everyone in higher fees. eg people who never "roam" are going to be subsidising those people that do. A negative move spun as a positive... clever EU, clever.
there is no cost incurred, it was always just an excuse to charge more. living in northern ireland, if i cross the border into the republic of ireland, i would be charged roaming fees for being slightly more southern on a tiny island
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#13Unfortunately, there is still one important limitation: we will keep the fees for the traffic from our home countries.
> calling foreign numbers will cost more at home than when travelling abroad
How so?
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#14Yeah, the telcos have already found a way out. They simply remove EU roaming from their standard subscriptions and it now becomes an add-on.
So if you want to use your phone in a different country during the holidays, you'll need an EU roaming subscription.
The politicians once again failed to be sufficient precise in formulating a law that would produce the decided result. They should have added a clause that state that all subscriptions are to cover the entire EU.
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#15I never saw why this interference in the free market was needed when it was making progress, and in some circumstances already provided solutions to the problem on Three I've had free roaming for years, at no additional cost, across the EU and a good chunk of the rest of the world http://www.three.co.uk/feel-at-home
iirc 3 introduced this service when it was announced that these regulations were underway.
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#16So the cost incurred will be passed on to everyone in higher fees. eg people who never "roam" are going to be subsidising those people that do. A negative move spun as a positive... clever EU, clever.
Not necessary true! There is a huge disparity between the cost of these services to the companies and the price for the users. This means that there is still space for regulation.
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#17What is the correct European SIM to buy for data/voice/etc. (prepaid)? Presumably best to get one from a country you don't actually visit much, so you're always roaming, and thus don't pay the home to foreign number charges?
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#18It was about time; it will also help a lot with short-term mobility around the EU.
Re: Europe mostly ends mobile roaming fees from today
#19Unfortunately, there is still one important limitation: we will keep the fees for the traffic from our home countries.
No, calling foreign numbers costs the same in both your country and abroad. And it's usually more expensive on mobile networks, but that doesn't have anything to do with roaming.
Re: Europe mostly ends mobile roaming fees from today
#20Yeah, the telcos have already found a way out. They simply remove EU roaming from their standard subscriptions and it now becomes an add-on. So if you want to use your phone in a different country during the holidays, you'll need an EU roaming subscription. The politicians once again failed to be sufficient precise in formulating a law that would produce the decided result. They should have added a clause that state…
Telecoms in at least some countries are already having to back down on that due to regulator pressure.