June 15, End of roaming fees in Europe, towards the digital single market

Re:June 15, End of roaming fees in Europe, towards the digit... by jpalomaki on Thursday January 12, 2017 @02:30PM (#13385301)

Remains to be seen how this is going to work out in practice. For example now I pay flat rate for my unlimited 4G subscription. When I travel, my own operator will need to pay per gigabyte price for the network provider. This may put some pressure on my own operator to raise the price they are charging from me.

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Re:June 15, End of roaming fees in Europe, towards the digit... by jpalomaki on Thursday January 12, 2017 @03:49PM (#13385981)

Here's [1] some information on how EU views the wholesale pricing.

"With regard to caps for data, the general approach introduces a declining glidepath, with the maximum charge starting from €0.01/MB on in mid-2017 and dropping gradually to €0.005/MB in mid-2021."

So if I understand right, when I use 1GB of data on my roaming trip next summer, my operator might end up paying 10€ for the local operator, but is not allowed to transfer the cost to me.

I don't really see how this can work out, unless there will be quite heavy data caps for the free roaming.

[1] http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2016/...

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Re:June 15, End of roaming fees in Europe, towards the digit... by ryanlol on Thursday January 12, 2017 @03:08PM (#13385650)

Yeah, at home I pull several terabytes a month over LTE. I can't imagine that doing this while abroad would pan out too well.

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Re:June 15, End of roaming fees in Europe, towards the digit... by kk_cz on Friday January 13, 2017 @04:13AM (#13389496)

out of curiosity, which country is this and how common it is among others? in Czech republic I am seen as a weirdo when I use around 10gb/month - most people are comfortable around or under 1 gb.

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Re:June 15, End of roaming fees in Europe, towards the digit... by ryanlol on Friday January 13, 2017 @04:18AM (#13389521)

This is in .fi, I've got an unlimited LTE plan and it's way faster than the ADSL here.

If I messed with my antenna setup a bit I could maybe get the speeds closer to 600mbit than the current ~100.

If it worked as well abroad that'd be amazing, but I'm sure the carriers will come up with some schemes to prevent that.

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Re:June 15, End of roaming fees in Europe, towards the digit... by kk_cz on Friday January 13, 2017 @10:50AM (#13391675)

in CZ you can't get unlimited LTE plan AFAIK. The most expensive plans are around 30gb. Current speed in metro area is approx 70 mbit with a regular LTE phone without special antenna.

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Re:June 15, End of roaming fees in Europe, towards the digit... by ffggvv on Thursday January 12, 2017 @03:37PM (#13385885)

I think this law means that what you would pay without subscription is what you will pay abroad. Right?

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