[QUOTE=Orkel;52359259]It's a big improvement for calls and text messages which will be the same as your home country, but at least with Finnish operators there's still some extra charges for internet data usage, an "EU-payment" they call it here. You get approx 1-8 GB (depends on your plan) of cheap roaming (5,7€ per GB) which is considered "moderate" roaming, and once you pass that limit it goes to 9,5€ per GB.
For example my plan has unlimited data in Finland, so if I go abroad I'll get approx 600 MB of free roaming and after that 8 GB of 5,7€/GB "moderate use" after which it goes to 9,5€/GB.
It used to be 10x that price, but 9,5€/GB is still quite pricey.[/QUOTE]
What operator? Telia seems to have same regardless where you at no extra fees.
DNA. I checked Telia and they also have similar limits, 2-20 GB.
You can read more details here: [url]http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/telecoms-internet/mobile-roaming-costs/index_fi.htm[/url]
The no extra fees only applies to calls and text, not data usage. Data usage gets much cheaper, but it still has some fees.
[QUOTE=Plaster;52357663]Shouldn't that mean that the prices for mobile data should even out?
For example you get 3gb for about 15€ here but iirc in Poland you can get like 20gb for the same price[/QUOTE]
I work in the telecom business and every contract you sign (atleast those I've seen from Norway and Sweden) has a fineprint saying that the operator might close down your payment plan at any time in case of fraud, like if they notice that the phone hasn't been hooked up to the home country in a while or any other suspicious activity.
Also, the thing people forget is that the roaming "Is like home". That means that if I as a Swede staying in Sweden makes a call to Spain, it will have an increased cost. But if I am in Spain and call Sweden (with my Swedish subscription), the cost is whats included in your payment plan.
This is to prevent the obvious frauds above us, and the only way to change this would be a total flat rate on all subscriptions all across the EU which as you can figure out wouldn't work at all.
On the point people were making earlier in the thread about buying a SIM in a different country and just using that at home; here's an excerpt from [URL="https://www.threemicrosites.co.uk/euregulation/nonessentialplan"]Three UK (Hutchinson 3G)'s information packet on the changes[/URL];
[quote]In order to help us to detect possible abuse of Feel At Home in Europe, we may monitor your usage and presence. We’ll look at the balance of your roaming and domestic (UK) activity over 120 days: [b]if you spend a majority of your time abroad and consume more abroad than at home over the 120 days, we have the right to add a small surcharge to your usage[/b]. This surcharge will be capped at a maximum of 0.73p/MB; 3p/min; and 0.9p/SMS. Don’t worry – we’ll send you an alert 2 weeks before the surcharge is applied, giving you an opportunity to modify your roaming behaviour to avoid this surcharge.[/quote]
I can almost guarantee that other carriers have similar wording in their plans.
Been in Italy for a week and at the airport on my way home my Telecom texts me saying I can now surf for the same price in all of Europe.
Damn it. Anyways I've been waiting for this a long time, got unlucky this year but it's still a great change.
Some providers in the UK make me laugh. I see some signs going "We're giving you this cool thing, no roaming charges in europe innit? We're not being forced to. No. We're doing this cause we're nice, not cause we have to. Because we're good companies."
Sorry, most phone companies have signs like this everywhere lol
[QUOTE=adam1172;52357736]Seems like they decided on it quite a while ago because I got a mail about this from my provider last month, oddly they seem to have honoured it quite early because I went to France and faced no charges at all. At the same time they boosted my plan from 4gb to 12gb for the same price so I guess I can say its a win so far.[/QUOTE]
Tuenti's data gifts are mental. I hope they consider permanently boosting the tariffs by at least a few GB after the summer. I hope to use this free roaming at christmass
[QUOTE=Giginigi;52362257]Some providers in the UK make me laugh. I see some signs going "We're giving you this cool thing, no roaming charges in europe innit? We're not being forced to. No. We're doing this cause we're nice, not cause we have to. Because we're good companies."
Sorry, most phone companies have signs like this everywhere lol[/QUOTE]
Same in Norway.
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