To me the ineptness of the practice seems to be reason enough. For anyone who travels, it really is a hassle in 2013 to have to put everything digital in your

To me the ineptness of the practice seems to be reason enough. For anyone who travels, it really is a hassle in 2013 to have to put everything digital in your life on hold and stop relying on your smartphone just because you are moving around inside of Europe. Given how small the oligopoly of those companies is, and how they charge roaming fees even when you are still using their own network (only it's another subsidiary in another country), roaming fees seems to me like a case of distorted competition.