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Title: Will EU roaming become more expensive after Brexit? Post by: HCK on June 16, 2016, 04:05:21 pm Will EU roaming become more expensive after Brexit?
Are we in for a roaming price hike if the UK leaves the European Union? With the UK voting on whether to stay in the European Union on June 23, one of the many areas affected by a potential "Brexit" is the cost of British consumers using their phones on the continent. As it stands, EU law restricts how much operators based in one member state can charge for calls, texts and data in another. And in the next year EU roaming fees will be abolished altogether. So if the UK votes to leave the EU, what might the future hold for European roaming? Staying in the EU would mean an end to roaming fees altogether from June 2017. Right now UK networks are bound by EU caps on roaming prices. Starting April 30 2016, calls could cost no more than €0.05, texts no more than €0.02, and data no more than €0.05 per megabyte. Should the UK stay in the EU, roaming fees would be abolished altogether by June 15, 2017. In effect, that would give subscribers to one EU network coverage througho... Source: Will EU roaming become more expensive after Brexit? (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/txH3gkTdXzE/will-eu-roaming-become-more-expensive-after-brexit) |