Postage prices to Europe sky rocketed?

Deluxe1 · 31 Dec 2020 at 21:46

Businesses with take advantage of the situation if they can inflate their prices more than need be.

Nasher · 31 Dec 2020 at 22:10

Lopéz said:
They've changed their EU roaming policy due to Brexit. Although they said they wouldn't.

Vodafone is such a ****** company

Vanquish-Storm · 31 Dec 2020 at 22:53

Lopéz said:
They've changed their EU roaming policy due to Brexit. Although they said they wouldn't.

Sounds like the same restrictions some providers already have in place, basically to stop you buying a sim her and moving to Europe.

Did voda actually say they wouldn’t make changes? Not all providers did.

PapaLazaru · 1 Jan 2021 at 19:35

Lopéz said:
They already are, and I would expect more like this

There has been a massive issue over the least couple of years due to unlimited plans being available in the UK far cheaper than overseas and people buying them and just going back overseas permanently. It's a massive loss maker, especially with 5G rollout you can effectively go and live abroad and run your whole houses data off a UK 5G SIM. It does not affect 99.9% of people who use their plans normally.

Expect them all to follow suit.

malachi · 1 Jan 2021 at 20:22

PapaLazaru said:
There has been a massive issue over the least couple of years due to unlimited plans being available in the UK far cheaper than overseas and people buying them and just going back overseas permanently. It's a massive loss maker, especially with 5G rollout you can effectively go and live abroad and run your whole houses data off a UK 5G SIM. It does not affect 99.9% of people who use their plans normally.

Expect them all to follow suit.

From my experience, mobile data outside the UK is that slow it's silly to use it long term compared to getting a local sim.

Pawnless Endgame · 1 Jan 2021 at 21:02

azazl187 said:
It's covid not leaving Europe

Covid not leaving Europe? It won't be leaving Europe or the rest of the world until the vaccine roll-out is well under way

malachi · 1 Jan 2021 at 22:15

Pawnless Endgame said:
Covid not leaving Europe? It won't be leaving Europe or the rest of the world until the vaccine roll-out is well under way

Covid is here to stay unfortunately, it be like the yearly flu once the vaccine is out to most people.

PapaLazaru · 1 Jan 2021 at 22:52

malachi said:
From my experience, mobile data outside the UK is that slow it's silly to use it long term compared to getting a local sim.

Voda to overseas Voda is full speed.

Ali195 · 1 Jan 2021 at 23:51

Used to buy Three 'Feel At Home', the odd day when driving London to east Germany but got quite expensive (£3/4 per day if I remember) but they started to cover them all one by one. Slow as **** though, throttled to hell. In fact we had better speed on the ferry home (middle of the sea).

I'm now on Vodafone, although don't plan on stepping out of the country until things calm down, probably 2022.

malachi · 2 Jan 2021 at 00:34

PapaLazaru said:
Voda to overseas Voda is full speed.

Same with Three in the UK and Three in Austria. I actually got better speeds and call quality in Austria than the UK. But not everyone is on the same network when moving between countries.

I don't have any of the big mobile phone providers where I live so I have a sim only local contract and keep the Three sim as secondary.