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Long overdue, especially for people living in the smaller EU countries, where driving ~3 hours in any direction will render your smartphone useless (or very exp
by felxh 13y ago
Long overdue, especially for people living in the smaller EU countries, where driving ~3 hours in any direction will render your smartphone useless (or very expensive).
Large carriers, which are complaining the loudest, shouldn't have an issue with this, since they are present in virtually all EU member states.
- masklinn 13y agoOf course they have an issue, because they're present in virtually all of the EU it's completely free money for them right now.
- felxh 13y agoexactly my point, but I could have probably been more explicit!
- easytiger 13y agoThree in the UK clearly saw this coming and recently made roaming in several countries completely part of your monthly package
- mjs 13y agoThe countries are: Ireland, Australia, Italy, Austria, Hong Kong, Sweden and Denmark. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23896896 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23896896 (This doesn't look to be symmetric, for some reason--if you're a Three customer in one of those countries I don't think you avoid roaming charges in the UK.)
- crocowhile 13y agoThree customers in Italy had the no-extra-charge-when-roaming feature already 4-5 years ago actually. That was both for data and voice. http://www.tre.it/opzioni/estero/all-estero-come-a-casa http://www.tre.it/opzioni/estero/all-estero-come-a-casa EDIT: I see there was a bit of overhead actually. not quite the same tariff.