EU may end all roaming charges

wolfbln · 07-03-2015, 22:54

Well. We are talking about a proposal of the European Parliament which is not going to be reality, at least in the near future, i'm afraid.

The proposals of the Commission clearly favours the cellcos and is a slap in the face of the Parliament (and may be the consumer).

If it is really taking place one time, I think two things are going to happen:
- roaming will be severely restricted to own networks or partner networks only
- prices for data will go up in cheap countries like the Baltics or SE Europe and prices will fall in expensive countries.
Because a selective pricing for a specific EU state will not be feasible anymore. Users will take a real "unlimited" 4G data SIM card from e.g. Play in Poland and use it on its roaming partners somewhere else.
As a matter of fact, this is one of the few points of the telcos, I can comprehend.

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wolfbln (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 206 Join Date: 14 Jul 2014 Country:	07-03-2015, 22:54 Well. We are talking about a proposal of the European Parliament which is not going to be reality, at least in the near future, i'm afraid. The proposals of the Commission clearly favours the cellcos and is a slap in the face of the Parliament (and may be the consumer). If it is really taking place one time, I think two things are going to happen: - roaming will be severely restricted to own networks or partner networks only - prices for data will go up in cheap countries like the Baltics or SE Europe and prices will fall in expensive countries. Because a selective pricing for a specific EU state will not be feasible anymore. Users will take a real "unlimited" 4G data SIM card from e.g. Play in Poland and use it on its roaming partners somewhere else. As a matter of fact, this is one of the few points of the telcos, I can comprehend.