Re:The EU’s new roaming rules
by roesel on Sunday June 18, 2017 @09:38AM
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OK, I get that "roaming" now costs as if you were home, but what if you're french and you go to germany and there you call a french number. Is that also as if you were calling a fellow french person, or not?
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Re:The EU’s new roaming rules
by matthewmacleod on Sunday June 18, 2017 @09:57AM
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It's annoyingly a bit complex. As I now understand it, for Three in the UK the rules are pretty simple for most cases:
UK user in UK calls UK number – local country cost. UK user in Germany calls UK number - same cost as calling locally from UK. UK user in Germany calls German number – same cost as calling a UK number.
The weird edge-case is that calling a foreign number is less expensive when roaming; calling a German number from e.g. France is now cheaper than calling a German number from inside the UK, because the roaming regs affect roaming cost but do not affect what providers can charge for international calls from the home country.
this is correct, international calls from home country are not affected by roaming regulation and cost more than same calls using foreign networks, they should regulate this as well, to make at least international EU calls from home country on par with roaming prices (aka domestic calls)
Funnily enough, as long as you are abroad in another EU member country, calling into any other EU member country is now regulated to count as "national".
Calling from your home country to another EU member country is not regulated and you'll pay the old long distance fees.
The way I understood it, the prices will be what they would be if you called from your home country. So calling another EU country from abroad would cost you the same as calling that other country from your home country.
that's not what they say in official FAQ, all calls placed abroad are same as domestic calls. calling internationally from home country is not regulated yet, hopefully they will fix this nonsense and cancel international EU calls completely
Yes, you'd pay the same as if you were in France as I understand it. However, calling a german number will still be more expensive I think, just as it would be when calling from home.
no, if you look up official FAQ they say all calls placed abroad have domestic prices, international call from home country is not regulated yet, hopefully they will fix this nonsense soon
The whole point is that when you're in Germany, the costs are the same ans when you are in France. Eg if your plan includes X free minutes to French numbers, and X€/minutes to call German numbers, when you're in Germany, you still call free your friends at home, and you still pay when you call German numbers.