O2 to reintroduce EU roaming charges.. (1 Viewer)

[Stewart J]

 

[PJGWiltshire]

I have been with o2 for years snd presently have 150 g a month. In the past prior to COVID when I had 100 gig and we longtermed on mainland Europe At no time was my monthly allowance capped. I used all my allowance each month with no issue. Now my 150 gig contract will be capped at 25gig this will impact on me. Good job the contract finishes in November. If all goes well and I Am back in Spain in September for six months I will have to get a Spanish sim

 

[ChrisL]

I have been with o2 for years snd presently have 150 g a month. In the past prior to COVID when I had 100 gig and we longtermed on mainland Europe At no time was my monthly allowance capped. I used all my allowance each month with no issue. Now my 150 gig contract will be capped at 25gig this will impact on me. Good job the contract finishes in November. If all goes well and I Am back in Spain in September for six months I will have to get a Spanish sim

Check out superdrug, currently £20 month unlimited and at the moment you can use all of your data in Europe, it's on a one month rolling contract so you can cancel at any time if they change the allowed data whilst roaming.

 

[Coolcats]

Don't forget all the virtual networks, plusnet is competing against EE and EE own them

this is an interesting one, the wholesale part of EE (or any telco) has a unit price for companies this price is the same for the retail arm so the competition comes in on customer service and how lean you can make the white labeled re-sellers (normally with stupid names) and they compete against the retail arm. its just a race to the bottom rather than 'competition and innovation' and its normally the employees that suffer with long hours and low pay....

 

[PJGWiltshire]

Check out superdrug, currently £20 month unlimited and at the moment you can use all of your data in Europe, it's on a one month rolling contract so you can cancel at any time if they change the allowed data whilst roaming.

Will keep an eye on all sorts. The problem with the likes of Superdrug SIMs are that they piggy back onto a main supplier and then follow their respective policies. My wife has an unlimited monthly with a rolling company for £20,in the small print clearly states 20 gig roaming, I have researched and most unlimited had a cap for Roaming. I believe all the companies putting Roaming limits on the contracts this year if you take into account the limited travel probabily in around Covid. Latter in the year and next year one company will to get business especially with the unlimited data contracts, they will offer more and more roaming data for use. So probabily this year its a local Sim.

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[Coolcats]

Check out superdrug, currently £20 month unlimited and at the moment you can use all of your data in Europe, it's on a one month rolling contract so you can cancel at any time if they change the allowed data whilst roaming.

Superdrug is a white labeled re-seller of the 3 network....

 

[ChrisL]

Superdrug is a white labeled re-seller of the 3 network....

It is, but at the moment you can use all your data whilst in the EU, it's on a rolling contract so you can cancel at any time, if you're going to travel into the EU it's worth a try, I've bought one and have been using it here in the UK so far so good, when I get over to the EU hopefully next January I'll report back, I'm pretty sure some others on here have them too.

 

[glenn2926]

EE just announced a £2 charge per day for contracts from July onwards for next year in 47 European Countries...

They didn’t though did they? They introduced the £2 per day charge for EU use for new customers and those upgrading. For existing customers roaming remains as is.
Guess that’s not as headline grabbing though is it?

 

[Minxy]

Just a thought all these families that are going to have to pay a huge % more on their holiday because they are taking their phones with them. Have they thought of instead of being on their phones they could try talking to each other and seeing what the country that they are visiting is all about.

Would it make a difference though? If the £2 roaming charge is made each day it will still be incurred whether they actually use the phone or not, simply because it is turned on.

 

[AJM2]

O2 not introducing roaming charges for Uk Residents in EU in 2022, per Sky News app. Good news for those of us planning long trips in 2022.

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[Googlebot]

I will be ringing Three and telling them straight I will be moving to O2 due to this. The more people who do it, the more likely it will be they will all follow.

It was a ridiculous move in the first place after the assurances they all gave it wouldn’t change.

 

[PhilandMena]

I will be ringing Three and telling them straight I will be moving to O2 due to this. The more people who do it, the more likely it will be they will all follow.

It was a ridiculous move in the first place after the assurances they all gave it wouldn’t change.

A waste of a telephone call. Three are a big organisation and have done the math. They will not care a jot about you and other brits moving to another provider in a protest move against roaming charges. There money is made elsewhere.

 

[Googlebot]

A waste of a telephone call. Three are a big organisation and have done the math. They will not care a jot about you and other brits moving to another provider in a protest move against roaming charges. There money is made elsewhere.

It’s not a waste, they have the option to waive the charges and keep me.

Either way for me it’s a win win.

A wasted call is one where they refuse and you still stay.

 

[Bessy765]

I have been with three since that first started many years ago. They have just sent me a message that they no longer offer one of my plans. When renewing to a different contract I will be charged £2 per day when using my phone abroad. Obviously being a customer for over 20 years with 2 contracts means nothing.

 

[Ivory55]

If I could not afford it I would leave the phone at home or if I was that skint not go at all

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[PhilandMena]

It’s not a waste, they have the option to waive the charges and keep me.

Either way for me it’s a win win.

A wasted call is one where they refuse and you still stay.

Best of luck with that then.

 

[PJGWiltshire]

An update from my usage back in September 2021through to November. I still have the 150 G per month usage with O2. As soon as I got into Spain in September I received a text message informing me that my usage was capped to 25G per month. So that was a first for me having a restriction after years of travel without. So now its clear that they are coping the amount we can use per month. Obviously around roaming charges for telephone calls it appears they are not introducing these this 2022. So for us using 4G as a streaming service is to cause us difficulties.
Due to set off again for a month all being well in March and will probably sort out a Spanish Sim card.

 

[glenn2926]

In the news this morning O2 and Virgin not bringing roaming charges in.