roaming - EU committee decision

unobtrusive · 13-04-2007, 09:47

It may be slightly expensive, for the outgoing part at least but it's a good start. Hopefully not every operator will immediately just charge the maximum rate.

I wonder if they have thought about the possible ways that the mobile operators may use to get around this. I can think of a few:

1. A charge for having roaming activated, maybe on a per month basis or charged every time you connect to a foreign network

2. Call connection charges, where the charge for a call may be 40c per minute but you have a connection charge of 1 euro for example.

3. Crazy billing increment like being charged for the first 3 minutes before reverting to per second or per 30 seconds.

4. Increased charges for other services to make up for revenue lost from roaming.

5. Higher charges for roaming SMS & data services.

Theres just a few, I'm sure their minds are more devious than mine.

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unobtrusive (Offline) Member Official Member Posts: 43 Join Date: 26 May 2005 Country:	13-04-2007, 09:47 It may be slightly expensive, for the outgoing part at least but it's a good start. Hopefully not every operator will immediately just charge the maximum rate. I wonder if they have thought about the possible ways that the mobile operators may use to get around this. I can think of a few: 1. A charge for having roaming activated, maybe on a per month basis or charged every time you connect to a foreign network 2. Call connection charges, where the charge for a call may be 40c per minute but you have a connection charge of 1 euro for example. 3. Crazy billing increment like being charged for the first 3 minutes before reverting to per second or per 30 seconds. 4. Increased charges for other services to make up for revenue lost from roaming. 5. Higher charges for roaming SMS & data services. Theres just a few, I'm sure their minds are more devious than mine.