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This deal is great in France, then go five minutes across any of its borders and you'll be paying a multiple of Euros per megabyte. Someone, maybe Free, needs
by mmahemoff 15y ago
This deal is great in France, then go five minutes across any of its borders and you'll be paying a multiple of Euros per megabyte.
Someone, maybe Free, needs to deal with pan-Europe roaming with the same disruptive vigour Free is dealing with the domestic French market.
- vidarh 15y ago> This deal is great in France, then go five minutes across any of its borders and you'll be paying a multiple of Euros per megabyte. No you don't: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/roaming/regulation/index_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/roaming/r... "As of July 2011: Prices for mobile roaming calls are reduced further with a maximum tariff of €0.35 per minute for calls made and €0.11 per minute for calls received. The maximum wholesale prices for data roaming fall from €0.80 to €0.50 per MB." Still not cheap, but certainly not multiples of Euros per MB.
- mmahemoff 15y agoKey word here is "wholesale". For the most part, it simply limits the amount of funny-money transactions between subsidiaries, as far as I can tell. Consumers, including the many people trying to do business in Europe, still get fleeced at Euros per MB. Also, the directive above only applies to EU nations, not all of Europe.