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'Vodafone to bring back mobile roaming charges in Europe from January'
MSE News: Vodafone to bring back mobile roaming charges in Europe from January
Vodafone is to start charging new and upgrading customers roaming fees of £2 a day to use their monthly allowance in Europe from January 2022 – though some will be able to cut the cost to £1 a day by paying for a multi-day pass.
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Of course, I fully expect them to close the "roll-over" loophole as well at some point
Will Vodafone also pass on higher roaming charges to European visitors to here, forcing their rates up, or is this move entirely unilateral, to affect only its UK customers?
As I already asked:
redux said:
And we haven’t regressed @M4rtyman ….. Free EU roaming was never free. It was simply paid for via other domestic price increases. The networks were forced to provide free EU roaming at a loss. It’s an artificial entity and as already explained just pushes prices up elsewhere.
You have to pay to roam everywhere else….
The free market was meant to benefit the consumer, where competition would drive prices down. However, just like the utility companies, they operate like a cartel. One company will start raising prices, and then the rest will follow suit.
If it was a proper free market, one or two mobile companies would keep roaming charges free and customers would flock to them. But we know that won't happen.