Re:Europe mostly ends mobile roaming fees from today
by zurn on Thursday June 15, 2017 @09:59AM
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People on average were willing to pay a lot for roaming, because it was charged from:
- business travelers (someone else's money)
- high income people (will still roaming even if it's expensive)
And it had a loophole for frugal people (prepaid local SIM)
so they could still tolerate the situation.
Finally, operators didn't decide the roaming costs for their customers - they could only decide what they will charge the other country's operator. So there was no direct way to lower their own roaming costs short of formin a "reverse cartel" of lowering prices.
- business travelers (someone else's money)
- high income people (will still roaming even if it's expensive)
And it had a loophole for frugal people (prepaid local SIM) so they could still tolerate the situation.
Finally, operators didn't decide the roaming costs for their customers - they could only decide what they will charge the other country's operator. So there was no direct way to lower their own roaming costs short of formin a "reverse cartel" of lowering prices.