Who's in Violation of new EU roaming rules?
 

Have read several articles that on an eu web site, some telcoms that have not adopted the eu tariffs have had their reputations smeared:)

Among those prominently mentioned were O2, T Mobile and Vodafone in the UK; although I think they have mentioned the new tariffs; they were cited for failure to notify the eu of their new tariffs (I think they had to be announced by 31 July to be in effect by 30 August for those who opt in and for everybody unless they opt out by 30 September, subject to correction if I'm wrong.

Interestingly enough, I have seen no mention by Virgin Mobile UK and Orange UK of lowered roaming tariffs.

Have I missed something?

O2 sent 2 text messages out, and have already introduced the lower tariff on 20th July

I didn't make it clear, I'm sorry...in the article I read the British telcoms (O2, Vodafone, T Mobile) were listed as not having provided the information requested to indicate the new tariffs would be advertised and go into effect.

I don't think either Orange or Virgin Mobile have done anything yet.

This is a table of the Italian situation...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/...tariffa_en.gif

I think only Wind and (maybe) UNO Mobile respect the law at 100%.

The good side of Vodafone and UNO Mobile is that they added some non EU countries as well, like Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Norway, IoM, Jersey, Guernsey and Andorra.

When I called Vodafone Greece CS on Tuesday (31st July, one day past the deadline) they had no idea what I was talking about but said they had heard "roaming charges might be reduced after September, it has not been decided".

pay attention that Tim has a 100 minutes limit!

It looks like the authors of whatever you've read can't be arsed to do any actual research about which companies have informed the EU

Of UK networks, Virgin Mobile has not yet provided info to the EU, but the others are not in default

http://ec.europa.eu/information_soci...k/index_en.htm

Here's the article I based the original post on:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5022285.html

Perhaps I misunderstood....perhaps the link Andy posted has been updated since then...

But no matter what, what's going on with Virgin Mobile (nothing on their web site yet either)...

I'd like to see the new french tariffs after EU roaming rules

I keep hearing about this EU "name and shame" website showing compliance around menber states. However, search as I might, I have been unable to find it, and the URL is not given in any news reports I've seen. Anyone know it?

This is a sms I recieved from Vodafone Greece a couple of days ago, it says:

With 'Passport' you can call from abroad as if you are in Greece with only 1€ added per call. Alternatively from 29/8/2007 speak for only 0,58€ with one call to 13830 (Vodafone Customer Care).

I might give them a call to see what it's all about.

Passport is an european tariff created by Vodafone to call from abroad with the same own national tariff with 1 euro added. It's not bad even if it's very expensive to call only few minutes

http://www.arcep.fr/index.php?id=9369
I think that some tariffs are not compliant with Eurotariff (the maximum amount should be 58,6 and 28,7 cents, but some operators decided to ask 59 and 29 cents a minute).:nono:

Great Transatel!! Only 46 cent/minute. Very good.

I suspect it may have been a previous version of the page I linked, though the American article was only a day earlier than my view of the EU page

If you looked at copies of the ERG info I saw, you'd be surprised anyone sent stuff in on time.

Yep, many thanks. You already posted it, but when I looked at it earlier it wasn't working for some reason (for several days), but it seems to be fine now. Just in case anyone missed it, it's: http://ec.europa.eu/information_soci...k/index_en.htm

On Wednesday the ERG sent out a second release of some guidelines. These are also available on their website until September 5. It contains such bureaucratic masterpieces as this:

- which basically says that for instance a UK network might charge me 35p or 35.47p, but not 36p, or whatever the actual numbers happen to be.

And this is nearly a month after the deadline for the networks sending in the tariffs ...