Re:The User Experience of Mobile Phone Numbers
by grkvlt on Sunday December 18, 2016 @04:52PM
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> in 2016, roaming rates were still quite high in Europe
Actually, European roaming is incredibly reasonable, and set to get even better.
Since July 2014 roaming charges were set to EUR 0.05 per minute, and since April this year that was changed to a cap, with prices varying from the domestic rate to EUR 0.05 maximum. And the legislation [0] requires the telcos to make changes again next year in 2017, that will make roaming charges equivalent to domestic charges, i.e. abolishing them. Similar rules apply to data rates - between domestic rate and EUR 0.05 per MiB just now and no extra charge above domestic in 2017.
Actually, European roaming is incredibly reasonable, and set to get even better.
Since July 2014 roaming charges were set to EUR 0.05 per minute, and since April this year that was changed to a cap, with prices varying from the domestic rate to EUR 0.05 maximum. And the legislation [0] requires the telcos to make changes again next year in 2017, that will make roaming charges equivalent to domestic charges, i.e. abolishing them. Similar rules apply to data rates - between domestic rate and EUR 0.05 per MiB just now and no extra charge above domestic in 2017.
[0] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/roaming-tariff...