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Originally Posted by Andytel
I think 12 GSM networks are enough... and maybe I didn't pick up all of them.
Anyway, I really think it's time for a change in the roaming charge trend in Europe.
Many operators have established networks in different countries, making economies of scale thanks to the single-brand policy: why shouldn't customers benefit of this?
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I think I've said before, I was once amazed to get 14 on the top of the Dover-Calais ferry, and with a single-band (1800) phone - 4 UK, 3 France, 3 Belgium, 4 Netherlands.
This would be due to troposheric ducting of vhf and uhf that occurs in anticyclonic weather, where the radio wave is refracted at a temperature inversion, similar to light on a hot road surface, but still unusably low signal strength from Netherlands.
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We might think that the networks could have done something years ago - cheaper roaming on affiliated networks, but it has only arrived recently with Vodafone Passport and this O2 arrangement.
But maybe some people can do this unofficially with a CallKey or other SIM, using call forwarding, and hope that the tariffs for this don't head upwards before others come down.
We have to hope that the joint denials and objections of the networks, that competition will improve matters without regulation, don't stall the EU Commissioner for long.