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Roaming in the EU from April 2016
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Yogimax
19-04-2016
Originally Posted by Mark C:
“It's not just in border areas where you can have a useless slab, I can take you to plenty of places (especially if you're on O2 of VF) where that's the case, and no hope of roaming !

Pay your money, and take your choice, you don't have to make any calls if roaming, unless it's an emergency, in which case surely cost no object ?”

Trouble is if you live and work there - you are perpetually then having to pay over the odds versus someone who isn't in that situation, or only make/receive emergency calls (I am not in this predicament thankfully).
philt74
21-04-2016
Looks like EE have announced their rates. https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/EE-Mob.../419710#M88876

Quote:
“We’ll be introducing new Standard rates for calls and texts in our Europe Zone from 30th April and even better data options too. It’ll be 4.4p per minute to make calls and 1.8p per text and it’ll be £3 for 75MB of data (all inc. VAT).

From 30th April, Euro Pass and Euro Data Pass customers will also get a massive 500MB of full-speed data each day with 4G wherever it’s available for £3 a day. 500MB a day is close to 15GB a month so this means loads more superfast data without any worry of additional charges. With Euro Pass you also get unlimited calls and texts to standard Europe Zone landline and mobile numbers included.

Hope this helps.”

paulbeattie87
01-05-2016
Nice to see the network that makes things right have the most competitive roaming rates… I'm quite impressed with Tesco Mobile!
pad-e
03-05-2016
It's only for another year anyway, this time next year all roaming costs are to be abolished. Can't come quick enough.
david16
03-05-2016
Originally Posted by pad-e:
“It's only for another year anyway, this time next year all roaming costs are to be abolished. Can't come quick enough.”

Compared with before it costs far less making a call from the European landmass and soon making the same call for just 3p per minute if you are with three PAYG.

Oh and I’m taking full advantage of making important 0800 calls from my mobile on PAYG for 0.00 when out and about now. Soon it will also cost 0.00 for booking a taxi on PAYG.

Happy days indeed.
natbike
04-05-2016
Originally Posted by david16:
“Compared with before it costs far less making a call from the European landmass and soon making the same call for just 3p per minute if you are with three PAYG.

Oh and I’m taking full advantage of making important 0800 calls from my mobile on PAYG for 0.00 when out and about now. Soon it will also cost 0.00 for booking a taxi on PAYG.

Happy days indeed.”

Do you have a link to these changes are published?
david16
04-05-2016
Originally Posted by natbike:
“Do you have a link to these changes are published?”

It’s not just those who have a contract sim who can make 0800 calls from your mobile for free you know. Being charged at premium rate instead of 0.00 for making 0800 calls from your mobile for so long until last July was shocking to say the least.

And EU call roaming is supposed to be abolished next year. It’s only really GiffGaff who have hiked up the domestic call rate to almost the ex EU landmass roaming rate and made it the universal domestic and EU landmass call rate in advance of the new legislation to get around it. Just because one mobile operator have done it doesn’t mean every other mobile operator have done it will do it. 15p per minute to make a domestic call from you mobile with GiffGaff, they are having a laugh at their loyal customers expense.
jonmorris
04-05-2016
I do think there's sufficient competition from Three, O2, Vodafone, EE, BT, Tesco, Virgin, iD and many others that suggests we won't see a massive increase in charges ahead of next June.

I think there will be some adjustments, but not of the type that suggests the work of a major cartel.

Of course, people need to shop around, and consider SIM only deals so they can swap and change to take advantage of what I expect will be lots of deals. Deals that will be missed if you go signing up with someone for 24 months!
david16
06-05-2016
Originally Posted by jonmorris:
“I do think there's sufficient competition from Three, O2, Vodafone, EE, BT, Tesco, Virgin, iD and many others that suggests we won't see a massive increase in charges ahead of next June.

I think there will be some adjustments, but not of the type that suggests the work of a major cartel.

Of course, people need to shop around, and consider SIM only deals so they can swap and change to take advantage of what I expect will be lots of deals. Deals that will be missed if you go signing up with someone for 24 months!”

PAYG is of course another option, and many are only eligible for that anyway.
jonmorris
06-05-2016
Yes, and PAYG can often work out cheaper too. Especially when sales staff convince people to go on a tariff that is far too high for their needs, or even too low and where you pay high out of allowance charges.
philt74
06-05-2016
Look like Vodafone have revamped their sim-only tariffs. The Red sims now have inclusive EU mins & texts, and an amount of data too. The Standard sims don't have roaming included.

http://www.vodafone.co.uk/shop/bundl...eals/index.htm
jonmorris
06-05-2016
Originally Posted by philt74:
“Look like Vodafone have revamped their sim-only tariffs. The Red sims now have inclusive EU mins & texts, and an amount of data too. The Standard sims don't have roaming included.

http://www.vodafone.co.uk/shop/bundl...eals/index.htm”

BUT it seems that EuroTraveller is no longer available. Once you use your allowance you're capped, and presumably have to buy more data.

And UK data (no details of European data) is going up out of bundle from £6.50 for 500MB to the same amount for just 250MB.

In many ways, it's better on the older tariff as even though I have to pay 3 quid a day, I get access to 20GB of data, while on EE I can get up to 15GB a month that is in addition to my UK allowance.

I wonder what Three will now do, after admitting to throttling and referring to Feel at Home as something for people on holiday, thus ignoring everyone else.
jonmorris
06-05-2016
Edit: EuroTraveller is indeed no longer available on new plans. So once you use the Europe bundled data, you're capped.

Maybe you can buy more data but it seems not, as the Vodafone page doesn't say anything about that, just UK data add-ons (and given the price of that, a whopping £6.50 for 250MB of data, I'd hate to imagine what you'd be asked to pay).

I think I am happier to pay £3 a day for access to my 20GB of data than 'just' 4GB.
philt74
06-05-2016
Originally Posted by jonmorris:
“Edit: EuroTraveller is indeed no longer available on new plans. So once you use the Europe bundled data, you're capped.

Maybe you can buy more data but it seems not, as the Vodafone page doesn't say anything about that, just UK data add-ons (and given the price of that, a whopping £6.50 for 250MB of data, I'd hate to imagine what you'd be asked to pay).

I think I am happier to pay £3 a day for access to my 20GB of data than 'just' 4GB.”

Good spot, didn't notice the nuances of the deal...
d123
06-05-2016
Originally Posted by jonmorris:
“Edit: EuroTraveller is indeed no longer available on new plans. So once you use the Europe bundled data, you're capped.

Maybe you can buy more data but it seems not, as the Vodafone page doesn't say anything about that, just UK data add-ons (and given the price of that, a whopping £6.50 for 250MB of data, I'd hate to imagine what you'd be asked to pay).”

According to the other thread you can buy additional data.

This is one of the posts:
Originally Posted by steffangl:
“Extra roaming data as follows:
http://www.vodafone.co.uk/explore/co...rges/index.htm

24-hour extra. The 24 hours begins as soon as the Extra is activated.
To add 100MB for £2, text 'ROAM 100MB' to 40506.

30-day data extra
To add 1GB for £15, text 'ROAM 1GB' to 40506
”

natbike
07-05-2016
If you're a heavy user, this is likely to be a lot less flexible. I was hoping they would avoid separate allowances (esp. when they're small). My guess is that if you spend two weeks abroad, you'll use the same as one month back home - many have WiFi at the office and home.
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