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That's strange because I have separate roaming data in my contract and it's way less than my local one.

by beezischillin 5y ago

chefkoch 5y ago
Then you have either a very old contract or one of the special no roaming ones.
- beezischillin 5y ago
  I renewed five contracts this year, neither of them had the same amount of data for roaming as they did for local. Calls and SMS, they did (unlimited, basically). This seems to be the norm for Orange here. I would assume the same goes for Vodafone since they generally seemed to always offer less for more. That being said, it's absolutely lovely to be able to travel for business or holiday and to be able to find your way around, purchase things and get access to public transportation information abroad. Roaming costs before that always tended to be so eye-watering that I never really knew anyone who thought they were worth putting up with. I really dislike going outside of the European Union because of them, myself, too.
  - piaste 5y ago
    If memory serves, the amount of roaming data you get is computed on the basis of 'what would you get if you paid roughly the same amount of money to a typical provider in the country where I am travelling', with some caps in both directions. I live in Italy which has low prices, so I get 50 GB/mo for 8€ (and 200 GB/mo during the summer). Last summer I travelled to Austria and Czechia, I had 4GB available in both countries, and indeed checking their biggest ISPs' landing pages it looks like 8€ wouldn't have bought me even a gig! So 4GB is probably a mandatory minimum.
    - beezischillin 5y ago
      That's interesting, thanks you for the explanation, makes sense to me!
alwayseasy 5y ago
You have less data because the law is for roaming not for people who want a Polish data plan they can use all year in Italy.
nemetroid 5y ago
There are some provisions about ”normal usage”, and operators are allowed to charge extra in certain cases. But not more than 3€/GB. As a comparison, my operator charges roughly ten times that for roaming in the US (and in 250 MB blocks, expiring in 24 hours).

That's strange because I have separate roaming data in my contract and it's way less than my local one.

chefkoch 5y ago

Then you have either a very old contract or one of the special no roaming ones.

beezischillin 5y ago
I renewed five contracts this year, neither of them had the same amount of data for roaming as they did for local. Calls and SMS, they did (unlimited, basically). This seems to be the norm for Orange here. I would assume the same goes for Vodafone since they generally seemed to always offer less for more. That being said, it's absolutely lovely to be able to travel for business or holiday and to be able to find your way around, purchase things and get access to public transportation information abroad. Roaming costs before that always tended to be so eye-watering that I never really knew anyone who thought they were worth putting up with. I really dislike going outside of the European Union because of them, myself, too.
- piaste 5y ago
  If memory serves, the amount of roaming data you get is computed on the basis of 'what would you get if you paid roughly the same amount of money to a typical provider in the country where I am travelling', with some caps in both directions. I live in Italy which has low prices, so I get 50 GB/mo for 8€ (and 200 GB/mo during the summer). Last summer I travelled to Austria and Czechia, I had 4GB available in both countries, and indeed checking their biggest ISPs' landing pages it looks like 8€ wouldn't have bought me even a gig! So 4GB is probably a mandatory minimum.
  - beezischillin 5y ago
    That's interesting, thanks you for the explanation, makes sense to me!

alwayseasy 5y ago

You have less data because the law is for roaming not for people who want a Polish data plan they can use all year in Italy.

nemetroid 5y ago

There are some provisions about ”normal usage”, and operators are allowed to charge extra in certain cases. But not more than 3€/GB. As a comparison, my operator charges roughly ten times that for roaming in the US (and in 250 MB blocks, expiring in 24 hours).