I'm in Northern Ireland and haven't heard of a single company that dropped free EU roaming.
Comment on Mobile roaming: EE prompts anger as it increases price by 150% | Mobile phones | The Guardian
andthenthreemore@startrek.website 8 months agoMost companies dropped free EU roaming almost right away.
Eavolution@kbin.social 7 months ago
Liquid_Fire@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Then you must not have read the linked article, which mentions three companies that have done just that.
EE, Three and Vodafone
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t know about your country, but in mine, most if not all mobile data providers include free EU roaming if not in all plans then at least in some.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Well, it’s not about any country but the UK which left the EU. Free EU roaming is an EU legislation, so obviously the UK is no longer covered by it.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There’s actually a lot of EU laws that still apply to the UK, so if the UK government had wanted to be kind to its citizens, they definitely COULD have retained free roaming too.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
UK has no say in EU regulations any longer and cannot mandate EU network providers to give access to anyone. The only thing the UK government could mandate is to allow free roaming of EU mobile customers within its borders.
TheInsane42@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Then I’m curious in which EU country you’re living. As far as I know, only EU/EEA and 3 EFTA countries have free roaming in EU. According to Wikipedia that is.
UK wanted out, completely out, so that what happened to UK provider, they are out and get charged. No wonder that customers now get charged as well. Nothing to do with Greed, just the result of leaving and the Anglo-Saxon economics, the user pays.