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It's always been this way. People get sucked into the latest gadgets which I see time and time and time and time and time and time on this forum.
EE to reintroduce Roaming Europe Charges
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It's always been this way. People get sucked into the latest gadgets which I see time and time and time and time and time and time on this forum.
That's a lot.
It's amazing how just going one generation back or one or two models down can save 100s a year. Every year
My s20 fe 5g is 23ppm with 30gb.
These new roaming charges. Was only a matter of time.
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I spoke to retentions, and was offered a 40GB unlimited texts/calls for £14 a month with free roaming (no extra cost).
Quite happy with that, Wife's contract is due to expire in March, so I will move her over to a similar sim-only 10GB unlimited plan then too.
Should mean we can shop freely for phones when our current devices start to show their age
Well EE were good to their word and give me a call this morning - this is 60 days before my current contract runs out.
They have moved me onto a SIM-only, 12GB/Unlimited/Unlimited/5g for £10/month -12 month contract (I was sceptical when I spoke with them a little while ago and they said retentions were still able to offer them).
If I'd wanted to sign up for the 24 months then I suspect more data would have been an option, but 12GB tends to be enough for me.
They have moved me onto a SIM-only, 12GB/Unlimited/Unlimited/5g for £10/month -12 month contract (I was sceptical when I spoke with them a little while ago and they said retentions were still able to offer them).
If I'd wanted to sign up for the 24 months then I suspect more data would have been an option, but 12GB tends to be enough for me.
The 4 mobile phone operators like the 4 major high street banks operate as a collusive cartel..... what do you expect?
That's the insidious thing about modern contracts they hide all sorts of things in the small print.
For you it's a deal breaker for 99% of people on a 2 week holiday to Spain once a year it's not...... I'm betting that as 50% of the major mobile operators have re-introduced roaming charges the other 2 will follow shortly.
Maybe not immediately as it might make business sense to mop up all the dissatisfied customers from the other 3 networks charging for roaming. Once that's done 3 introduce a charge and hope people think that there no point moving to another network if they're all charging roaming fees. So 3 gets to keep all/most of those extra customers that moved.
Roaming is a network cash cow as the chances are you'll be roaming on your own networks foreign subsidiary. O2 is owned by Telefónica which just happens to be the network that O2 uses in Spain..... the networks ain't stoooopid!
The Remain campaign failed to point out to people ANY of the benefits of being in the EU. As someone who worked in a related field I knew that if we left the mobile firms would drop out of roaming ASAP and told people I knew.. it was obvious... They are businesses and aim to maximise profit.
But its funny how now people see what a mess Brexit is, nobody seems to come out and admit that they voted FOR it....
Voda were first to break ranks and dump roaming, now EE.. the others will follow.... Three will probably be last as they introduced "roam like home" before the operators were forced to do so by the EU so they will want to keep that "kudos" but they will all happily resume charging
Because, it's done. Honestly, get over it and move on.
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Not sure either of those are true.
Looks like Three have joined the roaming charges party. I’m surprised as they had included roaming for awhile before it became EU law and it went well beyond that requirement as well.
Just O2 remaining, should we place bets for how long it takes them to change?
Just O2 remaining, should we place bets for how long it takes them to change?
I'm pretty certain Three only introduced it after the EU announced they were going to require it but before it became mandatory to do so. They just saw a business opportunity from adopting it early.
O2 do it already - they just have some contracts on which they DONT do it...
So now all of them do Roaming charges again. Yaay
