Tag: roaming
Football fans face massive phone bills from Russia World Cup
Vodafone adds 28 new destinations to Vodafone WorldTraveller
EE customers get 4G roaming in 14 new countries
O2 boosts holiday data allowance to 50mb
Three drop roaming charges from seven countries: "Feel At Home" in Hong Kong, Australia
Hot on the heels of their free 4G plans, Three are gaining further good favour with their users today by announcing they will be dropping roaming charges in seven international territories. The "Feel At Home" scheme will allow you to…
Three now offering £5 a day unlimited internet deals when abroad
Three are hoping to make using the mobile web while abroad a little less painless by today revealing a new £5-a-day unlimited roaming package. The £5 a day Euro Internet Pass lets Three's network customers access the web to their…
Extortionate tablet roaming costs revealed: iPad 2 and Galaxy Tab users beware
Planning on taking your iPad 2 or Samsung Galaxy Tab on holiday with you this year? Well you might want to think twice about turning on any 3G roaming features while you're abroad, as a new Which? study has…
Cheap European data roaming for Vodafone customers
Vodafone have changed their pricing structure for travelling customers to make using mobile data in Europe a bit more tempting. With arms in several European territories already, Vodafone will be able to offer a 25MB per day allowance to their…
Mobile roaming charges slashed
There’s good news coming out of Brussels (don’t say this to anyone who voted UKIP) regarding mobile phone roaming charges. From July the cost of using your mobile phone abroad could be slashed by a whopping 60%.
Rules drawn up by the EU mean that the costs of a text will be cut to around 10p (€0.11 to be precise) down from the usual 25p – although I know from experience O2 charges 35p.
The costs of calls has been reduced too, although the ridiculous practice that you pay for calls received as well as those made still applies – albeit with price reductions. The cost of a call made will be cut to €0.46 a minute (work it out in pence yourselves, you lazy so-and-sos) and calls received will be €0.22 a minute. These prices will be further reduced in 2010 and 2011.
The cost of web browsing is still astronomical whilst abroad though so unless you’ve got plenty of dosh, avoid this. Prices have been reduced, but only to €1 a MB, meaning a song streamed from last.fm or a video watched via YouTube is still going to cost you a few quid.
Alternatively, sign up with Vodafone’s Passport scheme and receive free roaming for three months this summer. You simply pay the usual UK charges – have a read of this post from last month for more details. Or go direct to Vodafone.
(via Digital Lifestyles)
EU helping reduce your Vodafone direct debit – proposes capping roaming SMS and data fees
The EU is once again aiming its twin bureaucracy cannons at the mobile industry, this time planning a crackdown on roaming fees charged when users TXT THER M8s from holiday.
The EU, lead by a rampaging Viviane Reding, has already signalled its intentions to attack rip-off roaming fees, but now we have facts – a cap of 11 euro cents (8p) per roaming text is proposed, a 62% reduction on the current average roaming fee of 29 cents…