Roaming charges to return after Brexit

[Platypus]

This story has been rubbished by Three, EE and Vodafone. More Sky news fake news.

[AtW]

Of all the bad things Brexit will cause roaming charges ought to be the least worry.

Have they started talking about getting visas for travel? Even "visa free" US travel requires ESTA, which is effectively visa-light, something that EU will introduce soon - bye bye last minute breaks as you'll have to submit info 48 hours in advance

[vetran]

Of all the bad things Brexit will cause roaming charges ought to be the least worry.

Have they started talking about getting visas for travel? Even "visa free" US travel requires ESTA, which is effectively visa-light, something that EU will introduce soon - bye bye last minute breaks as you'll have to submit info 48 hours in advance

hardly the end of the world.

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[AtW]

hardly the end of the world. next

It's not, might as well go to Salisbury instead, I hear they've got nice Cathedral there

[Paddy]

This story has been rubbished by Three, EE and Vodafone. More Sky news fake news.

Any links?

[chopper]

Have they started talking about getting visas for travel?

The Daily Mail were getting quite furious about it. Apparently we only meant for removing Freedom of Movement for Johnny Foreigners coming here, not the other way around

[Eirikur]

This story has been rubbished by Three, EE and Vodafone. More Sky news fake news.

Oh wait it's not rubbish

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45501007

[darmstadt]

Oh wait it's not rubbish

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45501007

Precisely, whatever the government says is absolute bollocks. If the UK operators are charged more by EU operators, do you really think that they're going to swallow those charges or will they pass them onto the customer? Place your bets:

Roaming may be free for customers but not for the operators. Every time you use your phone abroad your home operator is charged a fee by the one you are using abroad. That rate has been capped by the EU as part of the abolition of roaming but once the UK leaves all bets are off.

"If we leave the market they wouldn't be bound by the directive," says one operator. "They could treat our customers like someone from America or Australia and double or triple the charge."

[DimPrawn]

I drive through France regularly, listening to iplayer radio in the car. Unlikely to do this if it costs a load-of-extra-data-allowance. Sigh.

First world problems eh? don't drop your iphone on your other iphone, that might add to your remoaner woes.

[vetran]

Precisely, whatever the government says is absolute bollocks. If the UK operators are charged more by EU operators, do you really think that they're going to swallow those charges or will they pass them onto the customer? Place your bets:

they could or the operators may be unpopular considering the number of people from the EU come to the UK.

Or we will just see a market in EU sims start up in the UK. Maybe they will take advantage of our new low tax rates.