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Another example: It used to be that telecom companies used to milk cross country calls and data within the EU. The competition to provide cheap calls between co
by kivle 3y ago
Another example: It used to be that telecom companies used to milk cross country calls and data within the EU. The competition to provide cheap calls between countries was basically not working. So EU made it a requirement that you should not pay any extra at all for international calls between EU countries, and whatever data package you bought at home works everywhere within the EU with no extra charges.
- DaiPlusPlus 3y ago> So EU made it a requirement that you should not pay any extra at all for international calls between EU countries, and whatever data package you bought at home works everywhere within the EU with no extra charges. Arguably that's not a new requirement, but simply the EU enforcing the existing single market rules.
- kivle 3y agoIt wasn't considered a part of the single market rules until new legislation was passed. It came into effect in 2019. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/intra-eu-calls https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/intra-eu-c... > Before Intra-EU communications were capped, the average standard price of a fixed or mobile intra-EU call tended to be three times higher than the standard price of a domestic call. While the standard price of an intra-EU SMS was more than twice as expensive as a domestic one. In some cases the standard price of an intra-EU call was up to ten times higher than the standard price for domestic calls.
- datadrivenangel 3y agoAnd this was such a good change! The degree to which companies get away with shenanigans outside of the EU is crazy.