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MSE News: Mobile roaming charges could be axed across Europe

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"The cost of using your mobile phone around Europe could be slashed after the European Commission announced plans to finally end roaming charges across the continent..."
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This leaves open one remaining advantage to using local SIM cards. If one roams while abroad, locals will still pay arbitrarily inflated prices to call the roaming mobile. The only way to get around this will be to use a local SIM card, as is the case currently. It would have been nice if they had removed any need to buy a local SIM card.
I don't think that low-cost providers will be able to sustain their low prices across the entire EU and hence they will be forced to increase them in UK. Poor people that hardly ever travel or call abroad will subsidise those who do this regularly.
.withdrawal, NOT withdrawel ..bear with me, NOT bare with me
.definitely, NOT definately ......separate, NOT seperate
should have, NOT should of .....guaranteed, NOT guarenteed
Now the networks are being given a second option whereby a network can prevent consumers from choosing an alternative roaming provider but only if the home network applies its domestic prices when roaming. This additional option gives more flexibility to networks; they can choose either option.
As you suggest, small competitive MVNOs might be unable to extend their domestic prices for roaming throughout the EEA, but they still have the option of allowing an alternative roaming provider. Giffgaff is a good example. Although Giffgaff charges £7.50 for a gigabyte in the UK, it charges a whopping £450 per gigabyte in other European countries, i.e. 60 times as much. Unlike other UK networks, Giffgaff doesn't offer any data roaming bundles. Since Giffgaff does not aim to be competitive for roaming and its domestic prices might be too low to extend for usage throughout the EEA, it might choose the original first option of allowing its customers to use an alternative roaming provider.
GiffGaff can charge £1 million per MB if they wished, it would be deemed unlawful given that the maximum any EU operator can charge in a given month is €50, unless one optted-out.
Isn't that 30MB?
Oh yes, I can see that they have changed their offerings. Used to be 30MB.
I am using a £15pm 12 month SIM only and get 2000 minutes UK any network calls and unlimited data and thousands of texts and receive incoming calls free ALL of this active whilst roaming abroad in any of 7 countries - I just happen to be visiting 2 of them in the next 4 weeks so that's brilliant!
So it is about time MSE updated its Mobile Roaming pricing tips - not much good is said about Three mobile there ...