•  iByteABit [he/him]   ( @iByteABit@lemm.ee ) 
    24•11 months ago

    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

  •  bauhaus   ( @bauhaus@lemmy.ml ) English
    16•11 months ago

    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?

    •  navi   ( @navi@lemmy.tespia.org ) English
      2•11 months ago

      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.

  •  pufferfischerpulver   ( @pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de ) 
    5•11 months ago

    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.