roaming - EU committee decision

Motel75 · 13-04-2007, 08:50

I wish this applied to roaming charges in the USA, too, where using a European phone can cost €3 a minute.

(Never mind the rest of the world...)

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.

herve75 · 13-04-2007, 10:23

operators in france have prepared themselves for such announcement.
they have redefind the zones to be able to apply the regulated prices to the zone "UE" and avoid those tariffs for all other zones. I don't believe that the UE can interfer on tariffs of roaming in the US, or Asie or Africa.

they also have already increased their tariffs for calls from France to Africa and Asia. All calls are now 1.5€/min. solutions like Hiboo Mobile become more and more attractive (no need to change sim)

they can't afford loosing somewhere without getting more elsewhere

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Motel75 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 573 Join Date: 15 Jun 2006 Location: Berlin Country:	13-04-2007, 08:50 I wish this applied to roaming charges in the USA, too, where using a European phone can cost €3 a minute. (Never mind the rest of the world...) Current DE: Vodafone, Netzklub; PL: Klucz, Virgin; UK: Giffgaff, Vodafone; US: T-Mobile; CA: 7-Eleven; IT: Vodafone; UA: Kyivstar; FR: Bouygues; GR: Vodafone Former DE: Vodafone, T-Mobile, O2, Blauworld, 01051mobile, Solomo, Lycamobile, Simyo, Congstar, Fonic, Edeka Mobile, Lidl Mobile; PL: Heyah, Era, Virgin, Sami Swoi, Orange, POP, iPlus, Carrefour Mova, Telepin Mobi, Play, Lycamobile, T-Mobile; UK: Vodafone, T-Mobile, Virgin; US: T-Mobile, AT&T, Lycamobile; CZ: Vodafone, Oskar; ES: Lebara; GR: Vodafone, Wind; UA: Vodafone; IL: Orange; TR: Turkcell

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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.

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herve75 (Offline) Junior Member Amateur Member Posts: 19 Join Date: 05 Jun 2006 Country:	13-04-2007, 10:23 operators in france have prepared themselves for such announcement. they have redefind the zones to be able to apply the regulated prices to the zone "UE" and avoid those tariffs for all other zones. I don't believe that the UE can interfer on tariffs of roaming in the US, or Asie or Africa. they also have already increased their tariffs for calls from France to Africa and Asia. All calls are now 1.5€/min. solutions like Hiboo Mobile become more and more attractive (no need to change sim) they can't afford loosing somewhere without getting more elsewhere