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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by DaiPlusPlus on Thursday January 25, 2024 @02:51PM (#39134238)
> So EU made it a requirement that you should not pay any extra at all for international calls between EU countries, and whatever data package you bought at home works everywhere within the EU with no extra charges.

Arguably that's not a new requirement, but simply the EU enforcing the existing single market rules.

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by kivle on Thursday January 25, 2024 @03:12PM (#39134552)
It wasn't considered a part of the single market rules until new legislation was passed. It came into effect in 2019.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/intra-eu-c...

> Before Intra-EU communications were capped, the average standard price of a fixed or mobile intra-EU call tended to be three times higher than the standard price of a domestic call. While the standard price of an intra-EU SMS was more than twice as expensive as a domestic one. In some cases the standard price of an intra-EU call was up to ten times higher than the standard price for domestic calls.

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