Roam like at home: Roaming rules extended for 10 more years
Roam like at home: Roaming rules extended for 10 more years
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/914607
Archived version: https://archive.ph/Fq0vS
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230801081111/https://www.eureporter.co/politics/european-parliament-2/2023/08/01/roam-like-at-home-roaming-rules-extended-for-10-more-years/
Some good news finally, free roaming is so nice to have, it eliminates one of the many things you have to take care of before traveling somewhere else in the EU.
I can't get enough of these EU measures for bringing us closer together, this is what the EU should be
The travelling was awesome. I could just drive by car or bike over borders
what I’d like to know is, in 2023, why extra costs/charges for things like long-distance/international calling and roaming even exist anymore other than to gouge customers for the enrichment of greedy corporations?
I wonder why this is still limited in time?
Is this still in some kind of test phase or something?As a Canadian, roam like home can be 15$/day just for the USA, it's insane here ☹️
I was pleasantly surprised Verizon had free roaming to Canada... With 500MB per day of data. Not a lot for heavy users like me.
But don't worry, you can pay $10 for 509 more megabytes!
I swapped to GoogleFi the next week. True roaming for no extra fees (just selling your soul to Google). It is amazing in Europe right now though. Just go and don't think about your phone.
It also ensures better roaming services for travellers. For example, consumers are entitled to the same mobile network quality and speed abroad as at home, where equivalent networks are available.
Interesting. Does that mean up until now operators where able to offer worse access? For example prohibiting access to 4G and keeping roaming units on 2G networks?
I have had some unpleasant experience in Germany where "local" units had access to faster networks than me and my partner.
This should have been in place already, this is just an extension.
I wouldn't even care about speed actually, the data caps should be more fair. Imagine getting 50GB at home and 16GB in EU...
Germany was the first to come to mind for me too. Been there a couple of times and the network always feels slow. That saying, roaming never feels like “at home” speeds.
Because 1 corruption politician in Germany was paid to support TV connections over more modern ones and effectively fucked us over in the long run