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Vodafone to Bring Back EU Roaming Charges for UK Customers Abroad
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sometimes it is the destination network who request the limits as they dont want their network clogged or abused
That's interesting - I pay £18 (about €21) in the UK for the same on O2* (technically 100GB data, but for me and I think for 99% of people that's as good as unlimited). So even if I do have to start paying an extra £1 a day for roaming, I can still spend 24 days of every single month roaming for what it's costing you to have it included "at no extra cost".
*Ironic, given that O2 is 50% Spanish-owned.
Husband: I demand divorce with you!
Also husband: I want to live with you and you will make meals and doing my laundry....
sorry mates, all divorces give some consequences in return.
Also husband: I want to live with you and you will make meals and doing my laundry....
sorry mates, all divorces give some consequences in return.
As I said, it’s an interesting thread and I didn’t want to see it closed so prematurely due to off topic political discussion
How would you feel if you had to pay roaming charges when travelling between, for example, California and Nevada? Or were travelling near the border and picked up a signal from a neighbouring state?
That’s pretty much exactly what the situation was like in Europe before the EU regulated roaming charges.
Are O2 planning to impose this increase on existing customers then? Vodafone aren’t luckily.
To be fair, Canadians are accustomed to being absolutely gouged by cell network operators.
I have 5G unlimited on Vodafone (£30) and I actually use a lot more than that. In fact my average is about 440GB per month. Occasionally I’ve gone over 1TB in a month when streaming a lot of Stadia etc.
Calm down dear
And what was Project Fear, including the punishment budget that the then Chancellor was promising if we dared to vote the "wrong way". Some Remainers appear to be psychologically scarred by the result of the vote - they simply cannot accept it and, of course, this plays into their arrogant hatred of the working classes.
With o2 after someone has used 25GB of data they’ll start charging £3.50/GB-doesn’t, as yet, mention a daily charge on top of.
Fair enough. On Vodafone I have activated a cap when abroad to prevent that. I can’t imagine I’d use more than 25GB when on a holiday though. I use about 8GB a month of my 54GB allowance in a typical month and being on my phone whilst away is the last thing I want to be doing, even with work.
Thanks, but that doesn't prove your original post
You claimed UK users in the EU used more data than EU visitors in the UK.
What you posted shows the UK usage in Europe has increased higher than the EU to UK users, but without knowing the baselines and values, the statement doesn't confirm your post.
If UK2EU was a baseline of 10 and EU2UK was a baseline of 15, then UK2EU went up 50% and EU2UK went up 10%, the UK2EU would be 15 and EU2UK would be 16.5.
Ergo the fact there's a higher raise doesn't indicate anything other than there's a higher raise. It does nothing to show one figure is higher or lower than another.
In other words, if Sue's earning £50,000 and Tom's on £30,000, I'd rather be on Sue's salary with a 5% bump than Tom's on a 50% bump, even though he got a significantly higher raise!
So getting the underlying figures is far more important than a simple statement.
🤷♂️ It actually says
“if traffic flows were even between countries, the absolute level of wholesale tariffs would not really matter. However, unfortunately for UK operators, the flows are uneven in favour of other EU countries and the disparity has worsened”
ARE and HAS WORSENED being the operative words here.
In any case, when you look at the top-10 list for UK holidaymakers, and then think about whether the UK even makes the equivalent lists for France, Germany, Spain etc it’s pretty obvious that the statement is correct without even the hard numbers to back it up.
“if traffic flows were even between countries, the absolute level of wholesale tariffs would not really matter. However, unfortunately for UK operators, the flows are uneven in favour of other EU countries and the disparity has worsened”
ARE and HAS WORSENED being the operative words here.
In any case, when you look at the top-10 list for UK holidaymakers, and then think about whether the UK even makes the equivalent lists for France, Germany, Spain etc it’s pretty obvious that the statement is correct without even the hard numbers to back it up.
So.. Vodafone are burocrats in Bruxelles? It's not Bruxelles who is charging roaming costs..
Guess you're only trying to stir trouble between friends. The UK may have left the EU, but they're still in our hearts.
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It's not political, it's business adapting to (read: taking advantage of) new local rules. Just like apple uses the same european rules for business purposes (read: making more profit). It may not feel right, but according to the rules.. it is.As I said, it’s an interesting thread and I didn’t want to see it closed so prematurely due to off topic political discussion
That was a thing! In ~2005 my mobile network only covered 3 states. Outside of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware it was all roaming.
Within a few years, Verizon was offering nationwide without roaming, and it was a Big Deal.
You think our domestic price plans are going down as a result of this? That’s a good one, tell me another 🤣
These aren't big, or insurmountable issues, but they do have a negative effect.
Last time I visited Europe, I used London as the entry/exit gateway for a three-week stay.
Landed at LHR, picked up a Vodafone UK SIM in the arrival hall because not only was it the best value in terms of cost/service, but also because the company had strong networks in the other countries I'd visit. Cheap, convenient, and no further attention required for the rest of the stay, and no additional cost. It also only required a single purchase evaluation that I'd made before even departing. It worked out even better when the plan was awarded promotional bonus service during the period.
Swapping SIMs is not a challenge, but having to allocate even a small amount of time and effort to each country, from a limited pool, is not something I'd prefer to do, and is a step backward. Automatically losing a quid or two in daily fees on a prepaid plan also distinctly impacts its value.
The amount of potential hassle has just increased again, on top of dealing with Forex, which has always remained because the UK didn't adopt the Euro the rest use. These are relatively small chores in the course of travel, but chores nonetheless, especially on a holiday.