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Britons Could Face Roaming Charges in the EU After Brexit

posted by martyb on Friday September 14 2018, @03:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the when-in-Rome,-charge-as-the-roamers-do? dept.

takyon writes:

Free mobile phone roaming 'not guaranteed' with a no-deal Brexit

Britons visiting the EU could be hit with mobile phone roaming charges in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said the government would try to force firms to limit charges but he could not give a "cast iron guarantee" on the issue. The EU directive which capped the prices mobile phone operators could charge each other will no longer apply to the UK after Brexit.

Mr Raab said that two mobile operators had agreed to keep free data roaming. And the government is proposing to cap any data charges at £45 a month.

In an interview with BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg, the Brexit secretary said the government was trying to give the "reassurance that consumers need" on the issue of mobile phone roaming charges but admitted that European operators could pass on charges. He said: "No, I can't give a cast-iron guarantee. What I can say is that the government would legislate to limit the ability of roaming charges to be imposed on customers."

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  • (Score: 2) by zocalo on Friday September 14 2018, @07:37AM

    by zocalo (302) on Friday September 14 2018, @07:37AM (#734730)
    If you have access to WiFi, then sure, but if not then Skype is going to be using data packets that would also most certainly also fall under any reinstated EU roaming charges. Before the EU edict, data roaming was usually even more exortionate than voice and often had ridiculously low bandwith caps as well, making it entirely possible that a Skype call on your regular plan could actually end up costing you more than if you'd just made a voice call. It was almost always data that was responsible for the billing horror stories that made the press, probably because most non-technical people will have a much better grasp of the concept that a voice call is costing them £x/minute and how long they have been on a call, but have no idea how many MB/minute web browsing, FaceTime, Skype, or Netflix is consuming, and even clued-up people fell into the trap of thinking they were on WiFi while actually roaming from time to time.
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