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A comment on EE to reintroduce data roaming charges in Europe, following Brexit. Parent comment

Re:EE to reintroduce data roaming charges in Europe, followi... by maxehmookau on Thursday June 24, 2021 @09:01AM (#27616821)
Indeed, this argument is incorrect.

The UK could've done exactly what it did whilst an EU member.

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Re:EE to reintroduce data roaming charges in Europe, followi... by thehappypm on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:09AM (#27617701)
Then why did no EU members do it?
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Re:EE to reintroduce data roaming charges in Europe, followi... by tolien on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:19AM (#27617873)
They did - Hungary bought and deployed the Sinopharm and Sputnik V vaccines which weren't EMA-approved [1], later also taking CoviShield (the AstraZeneca vaccine but manufactured in India) and CanSino.

Why no other countries did it? Who knows. Maybe they thought they were already paying into the EU-wide scheme so why bother?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccination_in_Hungar...

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Re:EE to reintroduce data roaming charges in Europe, followi... by thehappypm on Thursday June 24, 2021 @04:24PM (#27623297)
Okay, one member state did it.
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Re:EE to reintroduce data roaming charges in Europe, followi... by tolien on Thursday June 24, 2021 @04:55PM (#27623633)
That's more than no EU states? shrug

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-52380823

> Hungary has been using Russia's Sputnik vaccine for months and and Slovakia has also bought doses of it.

> Germany said in April it would begin talks to secure supplies of the Russian vaccine and Austria said it would buy one million doses, but only once the EU's medicines agency approves the jab for use in the EU.

> The Czech Republic and Poland have entered talks with both Russia and China.

So that's Hungary, Slovakia, Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland - that would be 5 states, ~20%.

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