It was merely project fear that providers were going to start doing this once they didn’t have to by law.
“As the think-tank Bruegel has pointed out, because Switzerland is not part of the EU, the Swiss currently pay one of the highest rates in Europe for data roaming. “It appears that the UK will shortly find itself in the same position,” Bruegel senior fellow J. Scott Marcus wrote in June 2016.”
Another glorious Brexit benefit helping Britain level up and show the world just what a sovereign nation can do!
God Save the Prime Minister!
I said this to friends at the time, but this is going to be one of the things that makes people realise the mistake they made.
On the surface, it’s a relatively insignificant thing. An extra £20 or whatever, once or twice a year for a week or two.
The important aspect though is that that it’s a cost that wasn’t there a couple of years ago, and it’s extremely easy to trace where it comes from. It’s not increased prices at the supermarket, where you can blame it on 10 different factors and disconnect from reality. It’s a very real, visceral cost that people have to proactively pay.
The more, and the faster they come, the faster we will rejoin the single market.
LPT: get a SIM card out in EU. Some let you do a 30 day rolling with E-SIM so there isn’t much faffing around. Most their staff in stores know how to speak English and will help you out to get connected to the internet because who uses minutes these days anyway hardly anyone it’s all about data.
Blue passports woooo!
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And that will be me leaving Tesco Mobile then.
I’m with Smarty. Cheap as chips, and free EU roaming for 12gb of your data allowance, and then £1 a gb over that.
Thanks to the brexit voters we now have yet another thing to pay for. These brexit benefits are really stacking up
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**John Redwood’s Diary**
Project Fear caricatures itself
September 16, 2018
The latest round of Project Fear stories are usually re runs of past versions of the same thing. This time they are often repeated in even shriller and more apocalyptic tones, as the clock ticks down to our exit in March 2019.
Let’s deal with a few of them:
1. They said ” The UK will lose the advantage of the EU policy removing roaming charges for use of mobiles around Europe.” This was often mentioned in the Referendum campaign as one of the few examples of a positive from the EU. This week the main mobile companies confirmed they will not be imposing new roaming charges when we leave! There is enough competition in the market to keep prices down. A company like Vodafone anyway offers free roaming for non EU countries like Norway and Turkey as well as Iceland, a country which cancelled its application to join the EU. It is always wise to check your contract, as the so called EU free roaming may well have a usage limit.
If a few pounds a day for data is putting you off your holiday you probably shouldn’t be going on holiday anyway
> For customers who joined before this date, they can continue to roam for free in the EU, as long as they do not renew or **upgrade** their contract
Funny use of the word ‘upgrade’ there.
As well as roaming charges, from next year we will need to get a visa to go into the EU too. It’s not massively expensive, but just more pointless bureaucracy
BRB there’s another delivery on sovrin tea arriving.
I don’t think this article can be accurate.
The Brexiteers promised us that this wouldn’t happen. Some told us that the UK would use our newfound freedoms to being in regulations that are as good for us as when we were in the EU while others told us that the free market would always give consumers a better deal than any kind of regulated bureaucracy.
The Brexiteers can’t have been wrong or lying, so I’m going to assume that whoever wrote this article has misunderstood.
I threatened to leave EE for free roaming with O2. EE offered me free EU roaming to keep me.
Its seems EU roaming is now a bargaining chip for companies to encourage you to stay
Every time I see another operator reintroduce roaming charges, I’m reminded of the redditor who was frothing at the knees with anger at me when I suggested shortly after the referendum that this would happen.
“No operator would do this, they’d want to keep a competitive advantage”, they ranted at me, “you don’t know what you’re talking about”..
Give it time, they’ll all do it..
#brexitbenefits
Brexit for the win!
Member when phone carriers said they would 100% not bring roaming charges back?
Just wait for VMO2 to do this. It’s the only reason I’ve stayed a VM subscriber.
A totally self-absorbed post just to say that my gf and I both just switched to 24 month Tesco contracts explicitly because this might happen. Hah.
Somehow Tesco’s ambitious proclamation that EU roaming is included made it seem more likely that this would happen.
I’ll not be so smug when they somehow force me out of my contract early, probably next year of course…
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Must be fake news.
It was merely project fear that providers were going to start doing this once they didn’t have to by law.
“As the think-tank Bruegel has pointed out, because Switzerland is not part of the EU, the Swiss currently pay one of the highest rates in Europe for data roaming. “It appears that the UK will shortly find itself in the same position,” Bruegel senior fellow J. Scott Marcus wrote in June 2016.”
Another glorious Brexit benefit helping Britain level up and show the world just what a sovereign nation can do!
God Save the Prime Minister!
I said this to friends at the time, but this is going to be one of the things that makes people realise the mistake they made.
On the surface, it’s a relatively insignificant thing. An extra £20 or whatever, once or twice a year for a week or two.
The important aspect though is that that it’s a cost that wasn’t there a couple of years ago, and it’s extremely easy to trace where it comes from. It’s not increased prices at the supermarket, where you can blame it on 10 different factors and disconnect from reality. It’s a very real, visceral cost that people have to proactively pay.
The more, and the faster they come, the faster we will rejoin the single market.
LPT: get a SIM card out in EU. Some let you do a 30 day rolling with E-SIM so there isn’t much faffing around. Most their staff in stores know how to speak English and will help you out to get connected to the internet because who uses minutes these days anyway hardly anyone it’s all about data.
Blue passports woooo!
[deleted]
And that will be me leaving Tesco Mobile then.
I’m with Smarty. Cheap as chips, and free EU roaming for 12gb of your data allowance, and then £1 a gb over that.
Thanks to the brexit voters we now have yet another thing to pay for. These brexit benefits are really stacking up
Use WhatsApp
**John Redwood’s Diary**
Project Fear caricatures itself
September 16, 2018
The latest round of Project Fear stories are usually re runs of past versions of the same thing. This time they are often repeated in even shriller and more apocalyptic tones, as the clock ticks down to our exit in March 2019.
Let’s deal with a few of them:
1. They said ” The UK will lose the advantage of the EU policy removing roaming charges for use of mobiles around Europe.” This was often mentioned in the Referendum campaign as one of the few examples of a positive from the EU. This week the main mobile companies confirmed they will not be imposing new roaming charges when we leave! There is enough competition in the market to keep prices down. A company like Vodafone anyway offers free roaming for non EU countries like Norway and Turkey as well as Iceland, a country which cancelled its application to join the EU. It is always wise to check your contract, as the so called EU free roaming may well have a usage limit.
https://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2018/09/16/project-fear-caricatures-itself/
If a few pounds a day for data is putting you off your holiday you probably shouldn’t be going on holiday anyway
> For customers who joined before this date, they can continue to roam for free in the EU, as long as they do not renew or **upgrade** their contract
Funny use of the word ‘upgrade’ there.
As well as roaming charges, from next year we will need to get a visa to go into the EU too. It’s not massively expensive, but just more pointless bureaucracy
BRB there’s another delivery on sovrin tea arriving.
I don’t think this article can be accurate.
The Brexiteers promised us that this wouldn’t happen. Some told us that the UK would use our newfound freedoms to being in regulations that are as good for us as when we were in the EU while others told us that the free market would always give consumers a better deal than any kind of regulated bureaucracy.
The Brexiteers can’t have been wrong or lying, so I’m going to assume that whoever wrote this article has misunderstood.
I threatened to leave EE for free roaming with O2. EE offered me free EU roaming to keep me.
Its seems EU roaming is now a bargaining chip for companies to encourage you to stay
Every time I see another operator reintroduce roaming charges, I’m reminded of the redditor who was frothing at the knees with anger at me when I suggested shortly after the referendum that this would happen.
“No operator would do this, they’d want to keep a competitive advantage”, they ranted at me, “you don’t know what you’re talking about”..
Give it time, they’ll all do it..
#brexitbenefits
Brexit for the win!
Member when phone carriers said they would 100% not bring roaming charges back?
Just wait for VMO2 to do this. It’s the only reason I’ve stayed a VM subscriber.
A totally self-absorbed post just to say that my gf and I both just switched to 24 month Tesco contracts explicitly because this might happen. Hah.
Somehow Tesco’s ambitious proclamation that EU roaming is included made it seem more likely that this would happen.
I’ll not be so smug when they somehow force me out of my contract early, probably next year of course…
Scumbag Tesco