Roaming fees in Europe to remain until 2018 Comments
- Anonymous
- mxV
dlads, 09 Mar 2015The same reason foreigners come here and work then send all their money back home. UNION, the ... moreso if union is such a bad thing the UNITED kingdom must be a cause of pain for you too?
- Anonymous
- mxV
dlads, 09 Mar 2015The same reason foreigners come here and work then send all their money back home. UNION, the ... moremust be annoying when you go on your well earned break only to be annoyed by these foreigners. haha
- AnonD-326248
- pp}
dlads, 09 Mar 2015The same reason foreigners come here and work then send all their money back home. UNION, the ... moreWe will be happy if you opt out of union. In fact we didn't want you. For three times we rejected your application but you wanted in so hard that in the end we had mercy
- Anonym
- NCe
Eske Rahn, 09 Mar 2015Who mentioned free of charge??
But do not try to tell me that it costs substantially more t... moreThose who wrote the directive did.
Essentially that is the whole opposition to it, the travels within Europe are not symmetrical by any means, far more people travel from the north to the south than the other way around -- hence the operators from the south are objecting this directive because they would end up doing far more calls for free to the operators of the north than the other way around.
Also the "nail in the coffin" was the fact the people who wrote the directive never considered how this would affect competition in all *national* calls/plans.
An operator anywhere in Europe could very well sell SIM cards (to his "abroad" costumers only) with calls and texts pretty much free to all countries and from all countries except his own, knowing beforehand that he would never have to pay for those costs as that directive would force the other operators to support the costs for free.
So yeah, roaming *DOES* need reform in the EU, but this directive was plain stupid and made by people who didn't have the slightest clue as to what they were doing.
- Appleman
- mqM
While there making the stupid amount of money they are, it wont stop. thieves
- Eske Rahn
- 3ii
Anonymous, 09 Mar 2015why do you feel entitlled to use this technology abroad free of charge?Who mentioned free of charge??
But do not try to tell me that it costs substantially more to send a phone signal just across the border, than from one end to the other of a large country.
...Especially not if it is the same provider...
- Someone
- mcm
Telecom companies, the most corrupt and money hungry companies out there. The offer less than the past, but ask double.
- AnonD-373032
- MxY
Anonymous, 09 Mar 2015why do you feel entitlled to use this technology abroad free of charge?Why did you assume anyone here feels "entitled" to anything? The very essence of free economy requires dissolution of monopolies and cartels, and in the matter of roaming fees, EU mobile carriers constitute a classic price fixing cartel.
- dlads
- GJe
Anonymous, 09 Mar 2015why do you feel entitlled to use this technology abroad free of charge?The same reason foreigners come here and work then send all their money back home. UNION, the answer is in the title, the day the UK backs out of the EU i'll be a happy man, biggest fk up in UK history.
As for roaming charges theyre just another means of shafting us.
- alexv
- 0Vg
i don't think roaming charges will ever stop. They said the same about 2012, then it was postponed till 2014, now till 2018. and we dare call it european union.
- Anonymous
- mxV
Eske Rahn, 09 Mar 2015In 2015 roaming fees within the EU are nothing more than a money tree, ripping of the consumers.why do you feel entitlled to use this technology abroad free of charge?
- DudeInAPhoneShop
- Mx@
El Pablo , 09 Mar 2015Viber ... so your talking about using a service that requires a data connection to work? not many people will be in range of a wifi hotspot you know, so that statement really is moot unless they plan to anchor themselves to a hotel or cyber cafe all day and practically do nothing when they are abroad
- AnonD-11164
- JEF
AnonD-79616, 09 Mar 2015Meanswhile in the U.S you can't even use your phone with other carrier , let alone use it outs... moreYea, because you buy phones on contract for $200. Try buying them unlocked and pay full price and it will work.
- AnonD-362062
- AfH
You are talking about dropping roaming charges in all of europe.. We get roaming charges if we go to a nearby city ( Mumbai )
- shizzil
- 3Jn
well three uk already have free roaming in usa and some other country without charge you use ur home minute and Internet and I have unlimited every so that's a bonus for me
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