EE to reintroduce roaming charges across Europe

[Griffith4ever]

Magnum 475 said:

And those who said it were accused of being "Project Fear". Welcome to "Project Reality".

If we are going down that route then you could also say exactly the same "welcome to project reality" regarding the EU threatening to block vaccine exports couldn't we? A lot of us decided some things are more important than being able to update Facebook on the beach in Benidorm for free.

Back on topic - I've been with Three for as long as I can remember for the free roaming, and not just in the EU. I've used it in Vietnam, NZ, to name a couple. Bloody fantastic. For us over 50'ers 12gb lasts months, not days.

[Gweeds]

Brexit. Just so much winning on those sunlit uplands.

[mmm-five]

Okay, I'll admit it, Brexit was all my fault, because I didn't vote!

That one extra 'no' vote could have made all the difference (it wouldn't as my area voted No anyway), but don't let that stop the witchhunters on here.

I didn't vote because I couldn't understand what 'staying in' actually meant to the country, nor what 'coming out' would actually mean to the country...and anyone who says they FULLY understood the consequences of either choice is a lying !

[smithyithy]

O2 have written off the remaining 16 months and ~£600 of my contract as the email they sent to me about the new roaming charges stated I may be able to leave without penalty due to OFCOM regs.

So a bit of a result really, even if I have to pay for roaming with whatever network I go with next (likely to just swap between cheap 30-day SIMS now) the money I've saved by terminating more than makes up for it.

[Condi]

smithyithy said:

O2 have written off the remaining 16 months and ~£600 of my contract as the email they sent to me about the new roaming charges stated I may be able to leave without penalty due to OFCOM regs.

So a bit of a result really, even if I have to pay for roaming with whatever network I go with next (likely to just swap between cheap 30-day SIMS now) the money I've saved by terminating more than makes up for it.

How does this work if you have a contract phone? Can you keep the phone, or do you have to return it as it's not paid off until the end of the contract period?

Guess that is why EE's changes are for new contracts only.

[camel_landy]

colin79666 said:

At least we aren’t going back to calls costing a pound a minute to receive!

Give it time...

In the 'old-days', it was cheaper for me to use a PAYG sat-phone, rather than roaming (and that was in Belgium)!!

M

[anonymoususer]

camel_landy said:

colin79666 said:

At least we aren’t going back to calls costing a pound a minute to receive!

Give it time...

In the 'old-days', it was cheaper for me to use a PAYG sat-phone, rather than roaming (and that was in Belgium)!!

M

I can recall in the really early days* getting charged for a non answered call
I still have the bill somewhere

• analogue days NEC P3

[Teddy Lop]

Lol wondered how long till the remoan bores saw this!

Seriously if scammy phone cos opportunism is your triumph I can't make you look any more silly if I tried.

[smithyithy]

Condi said:

smithyithy said:

O2 have written off the remaining 16 months and ~£600 of my contract as the email they sent to me about the new roaming charges stated I may be able to leave without penalty due to OFCOM regs.

So a bit of a result really, even if I have to pay for roaming with whatever network I go with next (likely to just swap between cheap 30-day SIMS now) the money I've saved by terminating more than makes up for it.

How does this work if you have a contract phone? Can you keep the phone, or do you have to return it as it's not paid off until the end of the contract period?

Guess that is why EE's changes are for new contracts only.

Kept the phone.. My contract is/was £40/month and that's combining the airtime and the phone.. As they've just written off the remainder of the contract the phone's now mine to stick a cheap SIM-only into..

I just made the case that (outside of travel restrictions etc), I have 100GB data on my contract and when taking it out, I could use all of that for roaming. The changes mean that only the first 25GB would be free, and I'd have to pay £3.50/GB for the remaining 75GB (£260).

Of course that's a hypothetical and assumes that we'll be able to travel any time soon and also that I presumably stream constant 4K video content when I'm roaming

But it's enough to warrant being able to cancel. If they'd said I'd have to pay a significant fee to cancel then I wouldn't have bothered as it'd be cheaper to suck it up, but in this circumstance it was a no-brainer.

It's weird though, because based on that, in theory you could cancel if you're paying £75/month for 200GB data, but not if you're paying £10/month for 20GB data, if a lot of people decide to cancel on the same terms as mine then surely it would cost the network quite a lot...

Surely would've been cheaper for them to just allow more roaming data?

[Condi]

smithyithy said:

Surely would've been cheaper for them to just allow more roaming data?

Suspect they've budgeted for more people just paying up than cancelling the contract.

Consumers are not very savvy at times, but if you had a brand new contract then cancel it, take the phone, purchase a £10/m sim only contract and be £50/m better off

[camel_landy]

anonymoususer said:

* analogue days NEC P3

Ha... That was my first handset too.

Half a day battery life!!

M

[TroubledSoul]

WonkeyDonkey said:

EE's upgrade options on their website are a joke. You can usually get the same phone and contract plan for about £20pm cheaper from somewhere like mobiles.co.uk or affordablemobiles. I even have a discount through work and it's still overpriced.

I did this once and found my vanilla unbranded phone OS didn't have wifi calling on it! Wasn't happy.

[smithyithy]

Just ordered a replacement SIM deal from '1p Mobile' - 30 day roller, 50Gb for £15, uses EE (best coverage for my areas of use) including 5G

[Condi]

smithyithy said:

Just ordered a replacement SIM deal from '1p Mobile' - 30 day roller, 50Gb for £15, uses EE (best coverage for my areas of use) including 5G

Not really 1p is it?!

[PurpleTurtle]

Teddy Lop said:

Lol wondered how long till the remoan bores saw this!

Seriously if scammy phone cos opportunism is your triumph I can't make you look any more silly if I tried.

Yet there you are, happy to be lied to by the Leave campaign and Global Megacorp Inc, and just taking it on the chin.

Leading Brexiteer Owen Paterson MP said:

Virtually no phone company is going to charge roaming charges. If the other ones are idiotic to do so, they'll lose customers.
It's yet another scare story. People are fed up about this. They just want us to get on with it

https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/nick-ferrar...

Lots of plump Turkeys said:

Oh look, Christmas, how exciting!!

[mcflurry]

Condi said:

smithyithy said:

Surely would've been cheaper for them to just allow more roaming data?

Suspect they've budgeted for more people just paying up than cancelling the contract.

Consumers are not very savvy at times, but if you had a brand new contract then cancel it, take the phone, purchase a £10/m sim only contract and be £50/m better off

Most likely. I cancelled a fairly new contract with o2 when they removed inclusive 084x and 087x minutes.
My wife's place of work used one of them, so as I had used the service they agreed straightaway to cancel the contract.
They then offered a 1 year sim only option with double minutes and sms (remember them) for a fraction of the old price

[Teddy Lop]

PurpleTurtle said:

Teddy Lop said:

Lol wondered how long till the remoan bores saw this!

Seriously if scammy phone cos opportunism is your triumph I can't make you look any more silly if I tried.

Yet there you are, happy to be lied to by the Leave campaign and Global Megacorp Inc, and just taking it on the chin.

Leading Brexiteer Owen Paterson MP said:

Virtually no phone company is going to charge roaming charges. If the other ones are idiotic to do so, they'll lose customers.
It's yet another scare story. People are fed up about this. They just want us to get on with it

https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/nick-ferrar...

Lots of plump Turkeys said:

Oh look, Christmas, how exciting!!

It's okay I just spoke to Boris, it's coming out the 350M

[hyphen]

Condi said:

Not really 1p is it?!

[smithyithy]

Condi said:

Not really 1p is it?!

Their PAYG tariff is 1p/minute, 1p/text, 1p/MB, hence the name lol..

The 50GB thing is an additional deal for higher data users.

Easily one of the best deals I found though, it seemed that with the SIM-only deals, to get really good GB per £ you have to buy a 24 month one, whereas a lot of the 30 day SIMs from the main networks have really low data on them.

[airbusA346]

Condi said:

How does this work if you have a contract phone? Can you keep the phone, or do you have to return it as it's not paid off until the end of the contract period?

Guess that is why EE's changes are for new contracts only.

The changes are for upgrading customers too.