MSE News: Cheaper mobile roaming costs move step closer, with data to dive

Despite this news there are offers out there. I always use T-Mobile's World Email Blackberry Booster, which despite the name, gives me unlimited worldwide data including tethered data for £15/mth.

One easy way the European Commission could drive down the retail cost of data roaming further is to mandate that charges always be quoted to consumers per gigabyte, and not per megabyte or per kilobyte (as happens in some countries). For example, Orange charges up to £8/MB for data roaming, but if it had to quote these prices per GB instead, an advertised price of "£8000 per gigabyte" would highlight how unreasonably high the charge is. To put this in perspective, most UK networks (including Orange) charge around £10/GB for data within the UK.

The European Commission has already stipulated that billing increments for data roaming be no greater than one kilobyte from 1st July 2012, but that's another problem that hasn't affected UK consumers.