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European Union Citizens Won't Face Mobile Roaming Fees Until At Least 2032
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No. Forced mass migration. It’s quite hard to see what’s going on when you’ve got you head in the sand. I recommend you extract it and look beyond your own bubble.
I was trying to draw a parallel between the USA and Europe. Crossing country borders happens just as often as crossing state lines.
It would be ridiculous if your phone plan wasn’t valid in the entirety of the USA. Likewise, it now seems ridiculous for a phone plan not to be valid in the entire EU.
About prices: it’s another 5 euros or something for unlimited voice and data but I don’t need that much. I barely use 6 GB a month.
Forced mass migration?
FORCED mass migration?
One example will do.
Just one.
Thanks!
Open borders, if you need it explained
Is this a particular challenge with Three and/or with Australia?
I'm a frequent traveller to the EU from the UK, on EE, and I get 4G connectivity with good speed and low latency. In the use case of travel within Europe, travel has been completely fine.
I’ve just switched to O2 from Vodafone as they have 5G in my little town whereas Vodafone don’t have it anywhere near.
The free roaming is a nice bonus
What is anti-consumer in free-roaming for ALL Europeans traveling across all EU? I don't get your point. I travel a lot to meet my family, for tourism or shopping. There is nothing better than using my own phone like in my home country and I can call and text for free to everyone in the country I currently stay in. I don't even pay 1$ more on my bills. Is this something bad to me?
“sovereignty” 😂
On a more practical real world note, I’ve just returned from travelling to France, Belgium and Netherlands and EE let me use my phone as normal without any extra charges.
And that is why Ukraine has formally requested accession to the European Union? And pursued this course for years since they ousted Janukovich in 2014?
Because they know that's the same as Russia murdering their people and devastating their land?
Man, the Brexit delusion is as kooky as ever, and just as disgusting! 🤮
The European Union has open borders for its citizens and never in my life has anybody tried to force me to migrate anywhere.
That is such an egregious lie that it fits perfectly into the Brexit mindset.
TBH most phone companies will still provide options for international travel, i'm on EE with the swappable benefits, and one of those is a roam free pass, I just swap out my apple arcade for a month when i'm going away.
It is a shame as all the phone companies initially said they wouldn't change the free EU roaming but one by one they have done so.
In regards to the comment on lightning cables, while USB C would be good IMO I think apple are reluctant as partially there will be a ton of e-waste created by all those lightning cables being thrown away, FWIW I think apple will remove the charging port altogether and go magsafe/QI charging rather than change to USB C. There are still ways around the ruling, the EU tried to do the same with micro USB several years ago, apple made a micro USB female to lightning male adapter to bypass the original ruling
It is a shame as all the phone companies initially said they wouldn't change the free EU roaming but one by one they have done so.
In regards to the comment on lightning cables, while USB C would be good IMO I think apple are reluctant as partially there will be a ton of e-waste created by all those lightning cables being thrown away, FWIW I think apple will remove the charging port altogether and go magsafe/QI charging rather than change to USB C. There are still ways around the ruling, the EU tried to do the same with micro USB several years ago, apple made a micro USB female to lightning male adapter to bypass the original ruling
Individual countries are forced to accept mass immigration. We are at polar ends of the political spectrum and will never agree on this topic.
So 30$ for 5GB in 5G? That‘s so Y2K…
That person has for 20€ 12Gb in 4G/5G and unlimited data at a lower speed after that. Most european plans have unlimited data (with lower speed when you monthly allowance is over).
Rates in the US are very expensive and data caps are ridiculously low.
No US company offers a low price with 100Gb.
That’s a very good price for your plan.
So instead, they should just give you zero coverage outside of Texas. No roaming charges. Problem solved.
Member countries don't just share in the many benefits of membership, they often also agree to share responsibilities based on negotiations between member governments.
As right now many EU countries are helping ukrainian refugees by the many thousands – and the UK standing aside as usual and making it as hard as possible for any refugees to even live with relatives there, and the numbers are pitiful. But that shortsighted, narrow-minded selfishness and cruelty are just par for the course by now.
The block against roaming charges was just another one of those rules negotiated and agreed between the EU member governments and the European Parliament. Democracy can work quite well to the benefit of the people, but that is another concept that's alien to the UK nowadays.
No, we are on polar ends of the facts vs. lies spectrum, which is why any agreement seems unlikely!
Open borders is not a lie
Let me give a example of how this "no roaming fees" works in the EU. I don't live in the EU but I am on holiday there. I got a 250GB prepaid SIM for 35 EUR and asked if I can use the GBs in the rest of the EU (they last 3 months, then expire). Well it seems that I can only use 22.8 GB in other countries, which is based on the price I paid (25EUR, not counting the 10EUR for the SIM card), not on how many GBs I have... (by the way I had to buy through a friend since they only do this for EU residents, foreigners cannot benefit from "no roaming").
No, just some regulations have an expiration date built into them especially if the regulated field is expected to change significantly over time, so the need for some tweaks is anticipated.
In this case the regulation has had the desired effect and appears to be desirable for a longer term, so they've set it up for ten years from now.
Many other rules and regulations are permanent unless explicitly revoked, but it depends on the matter.
