Re:Europe mostly ends mobile roaming fees from today
by mamon on Thursday June 15, 2017 @08:47AM
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In Poland it actually is a race to the bottom: there are 4 different mobile operators and every time one of them announce a new offer it usually is cheaper than anything already on the market. And within few weeks other 3 usually follow with similar price cuts.
EU's roaming regulation is the latest example: 3 operators announced tariffs that pretended to make roaming free, but have multiple strings attached. But the fourth one, Orange, announced offer without any fine print, just equating roaming prices with domestic ones, thus forcing other three to do the same.
If I recall correctly there wasn't a single price raise in Poland in the last 15 years.
Re:Europe mostly ends mobile roaming fees from today
by andmarios on Thursday June 15, 2017 @09:06AM
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You guys are lucky. I wish it was the same with the greek market. Though the cynic in me whispers that wait a few years and you'll experience the same behavior once the market is settled.
Re:Europe mostly ends mobile roaming fees from today
by StavrosK on Thursday June 15, 2017 @09:46AM
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I don't know man, I have the Cosmote 65 and was paying 12 euros a month until recently (now I pay 20) for 1500 mins/SMS and 3 GB/mo. If you tell them you're switching away every time your contract lapses, they give you huge discounts.
Re:Europe mostly ends mobile roaming fees from today
by literallycancer on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:02PM
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There can be any number of telcos, the telephony regulator just needs to force them to share the infrastructure.
In Greece for example, we have 3 mobile operators and they announce exactly the same changes to their plans within a couple weeks difference. Things like “we increase our basic plan by 5 euros” or “you have to top up your prepaid phone at least once every 3 months instead of 12”. This way, there is no point at switching.
Especially roaming was a golden goose until few years ago, because each telco charged termination fees for roaming subscribers. So your telco was like “I can't do much, I have to pay the foreign telco”. What happened in EU, is that by law these termination fees started getting smaller until today where they become zero.