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"A committee of MEPs has rejected pressure to scrap roaming charges, recommending instead another round of cuts ..."
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So, from July 2014 a maximum of about 12.5p/minute to make a roaming call across the EU. That will make roaming calls within the EU significantly cheaper than domestic calling within the UK for anyone on many standard PAYG tariffs (often 20p or 25p per minute), or out-of-bundle minutes on contracts (quite often as high as 40p per minute).
Is anyone going to pay attention to UK prices, or will we end up with free calls roaming in Europe and £1/min for UK calls? It seems that as soon as restrictions are placed in one area (termination rate, roaming etc) they profiteer as much as possible by upping charges elsewhere. 40p per minute is simply madness for a UK call. It is just to allow the networks to offer seemingly attractive bundles, which rely on either significant underuse (and therefore a higher than necessary monthly fee) or significant overuse (and get utterly ripped off through run-on rates).
IMO, the only attention we need is to stop the companies from burying the excessive charges in the small print, that will help the customers to make the right decision and vote with their feet.
We need something like 'summary box' for credit cards that must contain all the essential information in few lines of text.
.withdrawal, NOT withdrawel ..bear with me, NOT bare with me
.definitely, NOT definately ......separate, NOT seperate
should have, NOT should of .....guaranteed, NOT guarenteed
Maybe I'm being thick but if this is true, why are we always hearing stories of people being hit with bills for hundreds or even thousands of pounts? I'm sure no one agrees to be charged that much!
I think that cap is relatively recent in relation to those stories we here. But even if it's not, it only applies to EU roaming - people can still run up those sorts of bills everywhere else.
I personally think the whole of the EU should have to be treated as "national" and not "international" with regards to calls etc. The networks may have an argument with data though (but it's still excessive).
Large companies think there's a justification for higher charges when a service is provided internationally, not only in telecommunications but also for example with bank transactions and car insurance. The EU has forced banks within the Eurozone for charging more for cross-border payments than for domestic payments; it's high time the same rules were applied to telecommunications throughout the EU.