Vodafone To Slash Roaming Charges

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Orange UK has been a great deal more cynical, and is heading in the opposite direction, actually lying to its contract customers about the latest increased roaming charges

http://www.orange.co.uk/away/

You can now look forward to even better value when you use your phone abroad, with more control over your spending too. From 1 June 2006, we'll be introducing new pricing zones and a range of new bundles to help you manage your spend while you travel

Ok, they have reversed their welcome of the new EU entrant countries, and put charges back down to 70p after the 2003 increase from 51p to ?1.10, but other non-EU countries such as Norway have gone up to ?1.30

Edit - and I forgot to mention - Orange have changed all roaming calls to per minute billing, when before they copied the roamed network eg 60/15 or 30/01 or whatever


I'm falling over laughing at all the retro self-vindicating claims in the article that only competition not regulation is driving down charges - would the networks really have come out with these lower new tariffs without the threat of a big boot up the arse about this?