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But wouldn't it cost other people more money who want to get in touch with you if you did decide to go with a "non-domestic" carrier? For instance, if I have a

by mlent 13y ago

But wouldn't it cost other people more money who want to get in touch with you if you did decide to go with a "non-domestic" carrier? For instance, if I have a non-German phone number, while living in Germany, and expecting people around here to call and text me? Or does that too fall under "roaming"? To me I think of roaming as being that I, with my German number, can still call and text other German numbers, and use my data, for the same price as I normally would, even when I am physically in another EU country.

koyote 13y ago
I think you are right about that. Roaming traditionally refers to using your phone outside of its network country. So calls to that phone will still be charged an international call charge. Then again, if you have a data plan, coupled with some kind of VOIP service, you could effectively use your phone across all of Europe for the simple price of an unlimited data package.
sveme 13y ago
I was wondering about that as well so I checked (see the write-up): ------------------ Update: Someone on Hackernews argued that international charges would still apply. However, according to this [1]: "International call charges would be capped at the price of a long-distance domestic call and intra-EU mobile calls at €0.19 per minute (plus VAT)." there would be no difference between domestic and (EU-)international, eventually creating the coveted single market. From Ryan Heath, spokesman of Neelie Kroes: (Sven @1sveme) @RyanHeathEU would the new roaming rule mean that a truly single market would be created? Could an Austrian company compete in Germany? (Ryan Heath @RyanHeathEU) @1sveme yes. You could buy your mobile subscription from another EU country and a company could easily set up in another country ------------------ [1] http://ec.europa.eu/news/science/130916_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/news/science/130916_en.htm (update: edited for clarity, damn, I don't get those formatting possibilities on HN)

by mlent 13y ago

koyote 13y ago

I think you are right about that. Roaming traditionally refers to using your phone outside of its network country. So calls to that phone will still be charged an international call charge. Then again, if you have a data plan, coupled with some kind of VOIP service, you could effectively use your phone across all of Europe for the simple price of an unlimited data package.

sveme 13y ago

I was wondering about that as well so I checked (see the write-up): ------------------ Update: Someone on Hackernews argued that international charges would still apply. However, according to this [1]: "International call charges would be capped at the price of a long-distance domestic call and intra-EU mobile calls at €0.19 per minute (plus VAT)." there would be no difference between domestic and (EU-)international, eventually creating the coveted single market. From Ryan Heath, spokesman of Neelie Kroes: (Sven @1sveme) @RyanHeathEU would the new roaming rule mean that a truly single market would be created? Could an Austrian company compete in Germany? (Ryan Heath @RyanHeathEU) @1sveme yes. You could buy your mobile subscription from another EU country and a company could easily set up in another country ------------------ [1] http://ec.europa.eu/news/science/130916_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/news/science/130916_en.htm (update: edited for clarity, damn, I don't get those formatting possibilities on HN)