EU Member States Agree to Extend Free Mobile Roaming Policy Until 2032

[constructor]

It will ends! The house of cards might soon collapse.
The life before 2019 is not coming back!

Yeah, the UK as we know it is indeed headed for disintegration as we speak!

Sad!

 

[shanson27]

Yeah, the UK as we know it is indeed headed for disintegration as we speak!

Sad!

The message of the stones in Georgia are clear !

 

[H2SO4]

For some perspective of how this was portrayed in the UK.

During the transition period (after the vote already happened to leave) when we (the UK) were negotiating our exit from the EU some said we wouldn't lose this roaming benefit.

And of course we have done so. And you can pretty much put on probably 100 other things people said we wouldn't lose, the beneficial aspects of being a EU member that we have lost. I'm yet to see any benefits to leaving to be honest with you.

Blue passports.
Search James O'Brien on LBC, he speaks to loads of people that spell out the benefits to him.

 

[constructor]

Blue passports.

Which are now made in the EU! ?

And which have always been possible in the EU anyway:

Croatian passport - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Croatian passports are dark blue, with the Croatian coat of arms emblazoned in the centre of the front cover. The words Europska Unija and Republika Hrvatska are inscribed above the coat of arms, with the word Putovnica and the international biometric passport symbol () below.

 

[5232152]

Damn! I wish we’d stayed in a political union, passing laws for me, dictating to me, snouts in the trough, so that I could save 50p on a call to my mum to tell her it’s sunny in Spain….

Don't know why you would prefer an American dystopia. Good luck, you're going to need it.

 

[unclemax]

Slightly offtopic but not entirely; iPhone eSIM support is really amazing for dealing with roaming charges. You can very easily buy a local eSIM that you can use on your iPhone within minutes. I used Airalo for this, but I suppose there are multiple apps that offer similar services. This means you are not tied to the usually very high roaming tarrifs by your carrier.

Obviously within the EU this isn't an issue, but it might be if you're travelling to/from somewhere not in the EU. Example: I travelled from an EU country to the US two weeks ago, and I bought a 5GB eSIM for $15 for the week while I was there. Worked great.

Not to counter what you are saying, but I could easily buy local SIM cards in every country I ever visited, including restrictive countries like Russia or China where they literally take photos of you and your passport when signing up for cellular service. If you are willing to go out there and talk to people, albeit with the help of a translation app, it isn't going to be a problem.

 

[H2SO4]

Which are now made in the EU! ?

And which have always been possible in the EU anyway:

Croatian passport - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

He's spoken about that exact thing funnily enough. It's not in this compilation but if you haven't heard it, it's worth a listen;

 

[400]

Are we allowed to wave our new "could have been blue years ago passports" at the fast lanes at EU crossing points now?

That was a sweet deal getting past long queues on the continent.

 

[dzankizakon]

How did the membership cost anyone more - please enlighten us while we have reached divorce costs of
£80bn so far and counting and projected loss of economic growth of 5-10% over the next decade.

If it's any consolation... it would have happened anyway sooner or later. Even if the referendum went the other way, there would be another one 5 or 10 years later. The UK probably didn't belong to a club that it whined about ever since it joined it. It's one of those things when you have to actually do something to know its effects, for better or worse.

 

[400]

Not everyone was whining which was obvious from the vote.
Now we have to get past the Cons reducing the funding we got and trying to tie it to propping up MP's up that say "Yes sir. how high sir". Never thought I would see the day that I though we would be better off for independence. The way this Brexit shambles has turned out, I would struggle to vote No if we had one in Wales.

FPTP needs to vanish into obscurity.

 

[AlixSPQR]

Of course people in the UK benefit from Brexit! But not voters or people in general. The latter are step by step discovering how most things are getting worse, like roaming charges. Or transport, id est distribution of goods, petrol/diesel, pub personnel, and nannies/au pairs. Et cetera.

 

[Nordichund]

Blue passports.

Designed and owned by a French company and printed in Poland on inferior paper to the former burgundy coloured passports. I have one, it feels cheap and nasty. I have now taken out Norwegian citizenship, I no longer have to queue for hours in line with the rest of the world when entering Schengen. The only time I shall ever use my UK passport in the future will be entering and leaving the UK. Soon all UK none-dual citizens will need an ESTA type visa to enter Schengen

 

[shanson27]

I’ve been hearing something similar for the past two decades, and yet…

Not everyone is coming to the future, and the storm isn’t in the air, it’s inside of us. The world is burning and the freedom is not present anymore. The world as we know is over

 

[LV426]

I got back from the Post Office just now, where a dozen customers (myself included) were stuck in a queue while the person at the counter was arguing about hefty European delivery charges. The counter staff politely explained to her that the unexpected large lump of cash she had to hand over was a result of Brexit.

In case anyone was in any doubt, I shouted out the same message to everyone else in the queue.

 

[constructor]

Designed and owned by a French company and printed in Poland on inferior paper to the former burgundy coloured passports. I have one, it feels cheap and nasty. I have now taken out Norwegian citizenship, I no longer have to queue for hours in line with the rest of the world when entering Schengen. The only time I shall ever use my UK passport in the future will be entering and leaving the UK. Soon all UK none-dual citizens will need an ESTA type visa to enter Schengen

Careful! The Tories have just introduced legislation by which your UK citizenship can be yanked away from you against your will if you have dual citizenship!

 

[weckart]

Wonder what year we rejoin. Of course what power we had will never be the same. Probably have to adopt the euro as well.
Remember the vote %, that will tell you it was a close run thing and should never have been decided on such.

Can't even contemplate the EU's wanting to have us back, not at least without a very decent period in purdah so at least the stench of our departure and of Frost's dilettante efforts at negotiation will have lifted.

At the very least, on applying to rejoin, we shall have lost our veto, shall have to join the euro and Schengen and can kiss goodbye to Thatcher's rebate, all of which makes having to form alliances within the EU rather than adversaries rather more compelling. It's not going to be an easy sell.

Only Denmark has a euro opt out, while Sweden continually cooks her books to stay out with only minor grumblings from Brussels. So far. Schengen would put the GFA worries to bed but would mean an easy route for migrants who would hop on a train once they had reached France, so that will be a hot topic with the right wing in the UK.

I just think there would be too much in the way of sackcloth and ashes for a speedy return. We've made our bed and are just going to have to lie in it. Roaming charges are the just the first of many delights to come.

 

[H2SO4]

I was being facetious.

Can't even contemplate the EU's wanting to have us back, not at least without a very decent period in purdah so at least the stench of our departure and of Frost's dilettante efforts at negotiation will have lifted.

At the very least, on applying to rejoin, we shall have lost our veto, shall have to join the euro and Schengen and can kiss goodbye to Thatcher's rebate, all of which makes having to form alliances within the EU rather than adversaries rather more compelling. It's not going to be an easy sell.

Only Denmark has a euro opt out, while Sweden continually cooks her books to stay out with only minor grumblings from Brussels. So far. Schengen would put the GFA worries to bed but would mean an easy route for migrants who would hop on a train once they had reached France, so that will be a hot topic with the right wing in the UK.

I just think there would be too much in the way of sackcloth and ashes for a speedy return. We've made our bed and are just going to have to lie in it. Roaming charges are the just the first of many delights to come.

There will be no rejoins for quite some time as there are far too many little Englanders willing to cut off their nose to spite their faces.

 

[Merkie]

Not to counter what you are saying, but I could easily buy local SIM cards in every country I ever visited, including restrictive countries like Russia or China where they literally take photos of you and your passport when signing up for cellular service. If you are willing to go out there and talk to people, albeit with the help of a translation app, it isn't going to be a problem.

I understand it was possible before, but eSIMs are miles easier. I can already purchase the eSIM when I'm at home in literally 1 minute so that I'm immediately connected when I land. That's way easier than buying a local SIM, which is a hassle, and it also means you have to take out your own SIM.