3 scraps roaming fees

[El Gringo]

In the days in which we're talking about excessively expensive mobile internet access, you wouldn't expect anywhere near this from companies who seem to be reluctant to make any big changes. Good on 3.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6263699.stm

Mobile phone network 3 has abolished roaming charges for its UK customers in seven nations including Italy, Australia and the Republic of Ireland.
Its users will no longer be charged extra for making or receiving calls or texts when visiting the countries.

3 said there would be no one-off fees, and that its users would automatically gain the service.

The other places in which it has abolished the fees are Austria, Hong Kong, Sweden and Denmark.

This is brilliant for anyone who spends any time travelling, and might set a precedent for a company like Vodafone, which has a far larger international customer base, to do the same.

 

[fini]

Don't all networks have to do something like this anyway following a recent EU ruling?

fini

 

[A2Z]

yep found out about this a few days ago from the 3g forum

 

[ps3ud0]

Seems that its only for 3's sister networks - any ideas if the other networks might do the same? Hoping T-mobile do, since Im off to USA very soon

Im pretty sure the EU ruling is to do with capping international roaming for all countries (just inside the EU?!?) to a reasonable amount, rather than attempting to make them identical to just UK-UK call pricing...

ps3ud0

 

[Fr0dders]

T mobile could do a similar thing

they have a very big world wide prescence with Deutsche Telecom.

i know vodaphone are pretty big worldwide too. But then vodaphone have allways liked charging you through the nose, so that wont happen.

 

[Strikeforce]

T mobile could do a similar thing

they have a very big world wide prescence with Deutsche Telecom.

i know vodaphone are pretty big worldwide too. But then vodaphone have allways liked charging you through the nose, so that wont happen.

Vodafone already offer vodafone passport, which works in more countries than 3 currently has in its roaming offer.

 

[tim_enchanter]

T mobile could do a similar thing

they have a very big world wide prescence with Deutsche Telecom.

I was in Germany earlier in the week and really not happy to be paying roaming charges just to switch across to T-Mobile D.
It's about time they sorted it out.

 

[Kappa]

i know vodaphone are pretty big worldwide too. But then vodaphone have allways liked charging you through the nose, so that wont happen.

Not really, vodafone were the first to offer a good consumer roaming package with Vodafone Passport, it's just that the media didnt pick up on how it covers the whole of the EU and various countries across the world. Its not perfect, but I think is still better than 3's offering.