EU member states agree with the EU parliament that regulations will be extended to force EU corporations to keep EU-wide roaming as free as it is now.
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EU Member States Agree to Extend Free Mobile Roaming Policy Until 2032
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You are certainly right, but what is wrong with the British people? Why did they believe such a liar when the rest of the world has always known what a charlatan this guy is.
Or does their royal democracy have a problem?
If 1.3 million of the 33.5 million voters had voted differently, the system would not have been completely overturned. 1.3 million can be bought with demagoguery (£350 million a week slogans, bureaucratic horror-picture sermons...) in any Third World country.
It was astonishing that even a former European industrialised country, some with a high level of education, was so permanently infected. Shocking. A country with lots of lovely people is sinking into insignificance.
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For now. The old contracts / agreements between EU and UK prociders from pre-brexit are still in place. The UK ones therefor grab some extra revenue, at no additional cost.
when those contract end, presumable in the next 3 years, this will change as well.
Vaccines were in the bag, EU or no EU. That was confirmed at a presser by government official. The start for the bidding was in the EU as allowed by EU rules.
Vaccine approval isn’t quicker because of Brexit – Full Fact
The MHRA could have given the Pfizer vaccine the same emergency approval when the UK was in the EU.
fullfact.org
That one never existed. We already had our own drug and vaccine approval program. Even the BBC reported we wouldn't have been hindered by being in the EU in our vaccine rollout program:
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/55163730
Ahh yes,AstraZeneca ,aka the blood clot vaccine ,outside of the UK.
In many countries getting a SIM (e- or otherwise) it’s not that simple and it involves filling forms with personal info and having ID (or passport) scanned or photocopied by shop staff. Maybe not everybody is willing to do that, and often these forms are all in the local language. That being said the free roaming, although extremely convenient is certainly not the only benefit of EU membership. Free trade and membership of the common market outweighs by itself the cost of eu membership. The U.K. has already lost more than they ever paid in decades of membership, and it has just left.
Sure, very clever, I’m sure the naughty minds behind this sneaky move will enjoy watching the smoking ruin U.K. economy is becoming. History will not be kind of them, so they should enjoy their brief moment of glory.
The elected EU member governments negotiate and vote on relevant EU matters in the European Council (with even a veto for each elected government on critical matters), as do the elected MEPs in the European Parliament. The Commission is jointly nominated by the elected heads of national governments similar to a national cabinet but are then also elected (confirmed or rejected)by the elected MEPs.I knew I was missing a couple levels of bureaucracy. Thanks!
The word you had been grasping for without success is democratic processes. All significant decisions in the EU are actually based on democratic processes, Brexit propaganda has just successfully spread near-complete ignorance about that in the UK.
Which is sort of understandable when you're only used to the cash-for-honors system in the UK with an unelected upper house, an unelected monarch effectively above the law and secretly interfering with legislation and an electoral system which doesn't even satisfy basic democratic norms (heavily distorted majorities effectively independent of actual vote shares – the UK could only keep that system within the EU because it was "grandfathered in" back then; Nowadays that alone would already prevent the UK from rejoining the EU, one of many special privileges the UK has now lost irrevocably).
That's the beauty of TMob - free data in the EU means VOIP works just fine so no roaming.
The reason they believed him I’ve that unfortunately despite the tolerant image that is often portrayed. England (in particular) is quite hostile and isolationist.
There’s also a significant proportion of the population who are either racist or participate in casual racism.
The UK isn’t the friendly, tolerant nation it wants people to believe.
Now you're just reminding me that your entire royal family are Germans 😂
Has UK healthcare @ NHS dramatically improved with the fictional extra 14% they are getting every week?
Except of course ‘free roaming’ doesn’t actually happen. Foreign telcos still pass the charges run up when someone is abroad to the telco in the person’s home country. Under ‘free roaming’ these costs are shared out to everyones bills instead of just the people running up the bills.
So-called mobile phone "roaming" will remain free within the European Union for another decade, the European Commission has confirmed.
The governing body said that a political agreement had been reached between the member states and the European Parliament to extend the practice until 2032.
In a press release announcing the agreement to extend the free roaming policy, the European Commission said:
Prior to 2017, when roaming charges were abolished in the EU, holidaymakers and business travelers across Europe would often be stung by excessive phone bills when they got home, with network operators charging exorbitant fees for calls, text, and data used abroad.
Years of campaigning saw the practice scrapped in the EU, meaning mobile customers generally no longer have to worry about roaming charges when using their phone in the EU, with most phone tariffs counting calls, texts, and data used in EU countries as equivalent to domestic use.
Commenting on the latest agreement to extend the practice, commissioner for the internal market Thierry Breton said: "Spending holidays in Greece, Austria or Bulgaria, visiting customers or suppliers in Italy or Estonia… traveling abroad without having to worry about phone bills is a tangible part of the EU Single Market experience for all Europeans."
Given that the United Kingdom has formally exited the European Union, UK residents won't be able to enjoy the benefits of free roaming when they use their phones abroad.
Indeed, when the EU trade deal was signed in December 2020, mobile operators were once again able to charge customers when traveling in Europe with "transparent and reasonable rates."
Originally, EE, O2, Three, and Vodafone, representing the largest mobile operators in the UK, stated they had no plans to reintroduce roaming charges after Brexit, but all have since announced changes, some under a "fair use" clause.
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So all that ‘free roaming’ does is ensure that poor people who never travel in the EU end up subsidising the calls of those who do.
Another Remainiac who can’t differentiate between the “EU” and “Europe” 🤷♂️🤦♂️
In the age of near-universal IP infrastructure even for voice communication those costs are really just marginal any more, not remotely on the level of old-time expensive switched phone lines.
So what Telcos were doing there was really just scalping their customers without actual costs justifying the outrageous markup and you're sounding rather desperate to justify another Brexit turd being delivered as predicted.