EU Roaming Charges to Return

[Smithy]

https://twitter.com/bbcnews/status/1424683840233213954?s=21

Another Brexit success!

[Niamh.]

[emoji28]

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[Ammi]

…I GOT A TEXT…!!!!!!….oh, it cost me £568….


…those re-roamers, eh….

[Livia]

The first network to block roaming charges will end up with a huge influx of customers. A little healthy competition...

[user104658]

They'll make it a £5 "bolt on" and if you forget to add it before you go away you'll be charged a fortune.

[Crimson Dynamo]

its costing a family of 4 £300 in covid tests to travel to Europe so I doubt this will bother anyone

:joker:

[Ammi]

…text from home if you can and only text outside if you must…anyone who can’t text from home should be actively discouraged from texting outside…but if you can’t text from home, text outside…don’t text outside…

[Ammi]

…Brexit is not for life, it’s for the wealthy…

[Tom4784]

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[bots]

a couple of the networks have already said they will charge £2 a day roaming charge, and the other networks will fall into line, i'm sure

[user104658]

a couple of the networks have already said they will charge £2 a day roaming charge, and the other networks will fall into line, i'm sure

£28 for a 2 week holiday which is pretty steep... but I'm convinced this is so that they can sell a £5/week bolt on and make that seem "like a great deal" as it works out as about 70p/day.

For those doing a lot of international travel, inevitably there will be contract options with roaming built-in eventually, probably for an extra £10 a month.

[Tom4784]

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[Ammi]

…it’s all an extra Brexit charge/expense…making things less and less affordable for low incomes …a little charge here, a little charge there and oh, we can’t afford to go anywhere etc….

[Ammi]

…or similar to what Dezzy said…all of those years of progressing to a more affordable and assessable ‘smaller’ world for so many….and oooops, we’re heading further away again…

[thesheriff443]

Phone companies are scum bags

[Tom4784]

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[Cherie]

If you were eligible to vote but didn’t and would have voted remain, you are just as culpable as those who voted leave imo

[Oliver_W]

Airplane mode + hotel WiFi or hotspots + WhatsApp + other social media.

A charge for mugs.

[thesheriff443]

And people who voted for brexit are fools for enabling them. Honestly, everything that's happened so far in regards to Brexit was predicted before the vote came to pass.

People were told what would happen, and they ignored it because they had 'enough' of experts.

It doesn’t stop the phone companies from being scum bags

[Cherie]

It doesn’t stop the phone companies from being scum bags

they were obviously making plenty money anyway so yeah I agree, I turn my phone off when I am away so its not a huge deal for me, and as long as they don't charge for Whatapp I should be fine

[Mitchell]

they were obviously making plenty money anyway so yeah I agree, I turn my phone off when I am away so its not a huge deal for me, and as long as they don't charge for Whatapp I should be fine

WhatsApp uses data, if just text not as much, bit photos/videos/call/video calling seems to use a tonne

[arista]

This is Not brexit

It is a Covid-19 charge
Poxy China.

[Ammi]

…it isn’t COVID related, Arista…it’s poxy Brexit related…the gift that keeps on taking…and especially from those who were struggling already…

Travellers from the UK had been able to escape roaming charges thanks to a ban on the fees throughout the European Union since 2017.

But the trade deal brokered between the bloc and the UK did not allow for Britons to keep this advantage.

[Cherie]

WhatsApp uses data, if just text not as much, bit photos/videos/call/video calling seems to use a tonne

People are lucky to get a 'we've arrived' text never mind face time :laugh:

[arista]

…it isn’t COVID related, Arista…it’s poxy Brexit related…the gift that keeps on taking…and especially from those who were struggling already…

Travellers from the UK had been able to escape roaming charges thanks to a ban on the fees throughout the European Union since 2017.

But the trade deal brokered between the bloc and the UK did not allow for Britons to keep this advantage.


Its Both
Covid and Brexit.


Covid shutting them down
loss of money input etc.

[Alf]

It's still a charge that wouldn't exist if it weren't for Brexit. Honestly, if I voted Brexit, I'd be embarrassed about it, at this point. The Brexit camp really did make clowns out of a lot of voters.Well tough, I'm very, very proud to have voted to leave. And we won. YIPPPPPPEEEE. I enjoy being a clown too.

[Ammi]

…none of the many articles refer to COVID, Arista…the charge is purely Brexit related as stated…no roaming charges would be possible if the U.K. were still in the EU, which is why other European countries aren’t having them also…?…because they’re EU protected and we’re not…it’s not ‘both’ no matter how much you want it be and I’m not really in your mindset at all of COVID = China stuff….

[arista]

…none of the many articles refer to COVID, Arista…the charge is purely Brexit related as stated…no roaming charges would be possible if the U.K. were still in the EU, which is why other European countries aren’t having them also…?…because they’re EU protected and we’re not…it’s not ‘both’ no matter how much you want it be and I’m not really in your mindset at all of COVID = China stuff….


Covid has cost Vodafone
as they had to close stores
in lockdowns.
So that matters, this new £2 a day charge
will bring back some cash for them

[thesheriff443]

It's still a charge that wouldn't exist if it weren't for Brexit. Honestly, if I voted Brexit, I'd be embarrassed about it, at this point. The Brexit camp really did make clowns out of a lot of voters.

Try getting over the brexit but hurt

Not enough people thought the same as you, end of

[Ammi]

….:laugh:…everyone needed their phone use during lockdowns and some people who hadn’t previously used mobiles or were using very little, were using them more and all non essential shops were locked down but haven’t increased charges in the same way…:laugh:…the charges are because they can…because the roaming charge ban only apples to EU so they’ve taken this opportunity of Brexit to get those profits of theirs rising …Brexit, baby…no ifs, no buts, no maybe…only Brexit….

[Crimson Dynamo]

The ultimate first world problem

"however will we pay for our Soya latte and copy of the Guardian now"

:laugh2:

[Swan]

The Phone Companies have flip flopped on this one. They said they wouldn't introduce roaming charges post Brexit, seems they have changed their minds. More about greed rather than Brexit so it seems.

Though in fairness this is a non problem for 99.9% of UK Citizens.

[Oliver_W]

The ultimate first world problem

"however will we pay for our Soya latte and copy of the Guardian now"

:laugh2:

"Oh noes, I'll have to pay a few extra pennies in order to use my portable capitalist money wasting device!!!"

That's not first world problems, it's something like ... Minus-forty world problems.

[Ammi]

…huh…?…


…well actually it can cause a bit of an issue and expense for those spending much time in and out of Europe through work …and for low incomes especially, whose budgets don’t run to Soya Latte and daily copies of the Guardian…it’s an added expense to a European visit which was a struggle anyway…

[Ammi]

The Phone Companies have flip flopped on this one. They said they wouldn't introduce roaming charges post Brexit, seems they have changed their minds. More about greed rather than Brexit so it seems.

Though in fairness this is a non problem for 99.9% of UK Citizens.

..it is about greed for sure but being in the EU ‘banned’ that greed in roaming charge restrictions…ultimately it’s Brexiting from the EU that’s the cause of it…they charge because they can and weren’t able to before….

[Swan]

..it is about greed for sure but being in the EU ‘banned’ that greed in roaming charge restrictions…ultimately it’s Brexit it from the EU that’s the cause of it…they charge because they can and weren’t able to before….

It's more about them lying, basically. I can see it backfiring tbh. If a couple of companies don't change and Vodafone etc start to lose custom they'll soon revert back.

[Ammi]

It's more about them lying, basically. I can see it backfiring tbh. If a couple of companies don't change and Vodafone etc start to lose custom they'll soon revert back.

… Brexit is built on lies, it has lies running through its heart and veins and led the way in lies… so it was inevitable that increased profit opportunities were going to live and breathe those lies as well….

[Tom4784]

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[thesheriff443]

I'm not 'but hurt', I just like reminding brexiters of their endless failures.

Make better decisions, be more informed in future.

Yes, coming into threads calling people clowns is you doing a public service.

[Smithy]

This is Not brexit

It is a Covid-19 charge
Poxy China.

Embarrassing

Read the article arista!

[Livia]

Brexit responsible for greedy, opportunistic phone companies. And remainers say leavers are delusional.

[The Slim Reaper]

You were warned, but you knew what you were voting for.

Hilarious seeing folks try and shift the blame. If this was the only negative of brexit, then fair enough, but most of project fear has been proven true so far.

And it's ok to mock folks for a tiny expense when travelling abroad (because it's only guardian reading, soy-latte drinkers that go abroad :joker:), but stack it on to food prices which will rise, empty shelves, the costs of dealing with postage etc, and suddenly those sunlit uplands are costing folks a lot of money.

[The Slim Reaper]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8WPYCDXoAYxN1G?format=jpg&name=360x360

[Captain.Remy]

Yay...just when we are about to go back to the UK for at least a couple of months :skull:
I will have to review our phone plan etc when so far we have always kept the same

[Captain.Remy]

Yes, coming into threads calling people clowns is you doing a public service.

It is because it helds people accountable for their decisions :shrug:

[Cherie]

It is because it helds people accountable for their decisions :shrug:

including the decision not to vote, a lot is being laid at the door of people who voted out but at least they voted for what they wanted, you have a whole cohort of people in the UK who didn't vote and didn't want Brexit which I find every more annoying!

[thesheriff443]

It is because it helds people accountable for their decisions :shrug:

By who? some random on a bb forum coming into threads like they have some authority I couldn’t give two fcuks what they think.

[Captain.Remy]

By who? some random on a bb forum coming into threads like they have some authority I couldn’t give two fcuks what they think.

It's a forum open to anyone to comment without any particular authority. You don't have to care and nobody asked you to.

[Captain.Remy]

including the decision not to vote, a lot is being laid at the door of people who voted out but at least they voted for what they wanted, you have a whole cohort of people in the UK who didn't vote and didn't want Brexit which I find every more annoying!

Including the decision not to vote and complain afterwards.

[Ammi]

Yay...just when we are about to go back to the UK for at least a couple of months :skull:
I will have to review our phone plan etc when so far we have always kept the same

…if you check with your provider to be sure, Remy…I’ve just read this, though…and it’ll probably be ok for you…but be sure of that so that you can afford to feed your baby when you need to and haven’t spent everything on phone charges…

https://www.connexionfrance.com/Practical/Your-Questions/Will-Brexit-mean-mobile-roaming-fees-for-UK-France-travel

[The Slim Reaper]

including the decision not to vote, a lot is being laid at the door of people who voted out but at least they voted for what they wanted, you have a whole cohort of people in the UK who didn't vote and didn't want Brexit which I find every more annoying!

:joker:

Oh wow, who on earth could you mean.

[Captain.Remy]

…if you check with your provider to be sure, Remy…I’ve just read this, though…and it’ll probably be ok for you…but be sure of that so that you can afford to feed your baby when you need to and haven’t spent everything on phone charges…

https://www.connexionfrance.com/Practical/Your-Questions/Will-Brexit-mean-mobile-roaming-fees-for-UK-France-travel

Thanks darling :love:
I'll give a call tonight but a lot of people are asking them on their forum and no response so far. They apparently don't know yet. :shrug:

[Cherie]

Including the decision not to vote and complain afterwards.

Absolutely :laugh:

[Tom4784]

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[The Slim Reaper]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8A1cTcWEAQgvEg?format=jpg&name=medium

[Cherie]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8A1cTcWEAQgvEg?format=jpg&name=medium

I don't think it was mainly Tory voters who voted Brexit? the majority seemed to come from the North which were Labour Heartlands and why the Red Wall fell because Labour did not set out its stall with regard to Brexit under JC, he was clearly a leaver though :laugh:

[Swan]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8A1cTcWEAQgvEg?format=jpg&name=medium

Good marketing/publicity stunt. They'll double their custom at least if that manages to do the rounds on twitter.

[James]

^ That doesn't look real. :think:

Looks like the writing is from a paint program rather than chalk.

[Swan]

^ That doesn't look real. :think:

Looks like the writing is from a paint program rather than chalk.

Oh yeah :hehe:

[The Slim Reaper]

I don't think it was mainly Tory voters who voted Brexit? the majority seemed to come from the North which were Labour Heartlands and why the Red Wall fell because Labour did not set out its stall with regard to Brexit under JC, he was clearly a leaver though :laugh:

Tories 61-39 - Leave
Labour 65-35 Remain.
LD 68-32 - Remain
UKIP 95-5 Leave
Green - 80-20 remain

:laugh:

It also didn't happen in a vacuum; after decades of the most popular RW newspapers and media attacking the Eu over made up nonsense, such as bendy bananas and lies about fishing and farming, Cameron brought tory austerity to attack living standards and communities, especially in the north, then they were told things were sh1t, not because of the bankers in 08, or the tory ideology, but because of a polish plumber.

[Cherie]

^ That doesn't look real. :think:

Looks like the writing is from a paint program rather than chalk.

apart from anything else I doubt any pub is turning away business these days

[Cherie]

Tories 61-39 - Leave
Labour 65-35 Remain.
LD 68-32 - Remain
UKIP 95-5 Leave
Green - 80-20 remain

:laugh:

It also didn't happen in a vacuum; after decades of the most popular RW newspapers and media attacking the Eu over made up nonsense, such as bendy bananas and lies about fishing and farming, Cameron brought tory austerity to attack living standards and communities, especially in the north, then they were told things were sh1t, not because of the bankers in 08, or the tory ideology, but because of a polish plumber.

London voted remain, we remain classy :smug:

[bots]

^ That doesn't look real. :think:

Looks like the writing is from a paint program rather than chalk.

it's not real because the "chalk" doesnt match the contours of the board underneath :laugh:

[Scarlett.]

Brex**** means Brex****

[The Slim Reaper]

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/lifestyle/think-brexit-food-shortages-are-bad-now-wait-until-october-285428/

Think Brexit food shortages are bad now? Wait until October

Over the past few weeks, food shortages have been a growing concern in the UK, fuelled by the ongoing effects of Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic.

The government has been urged to deploy the army to replace over 100,000 lorry drivers, primarily from Eastern Europe, who have been unable or unwilling to work in the UK due to post-Brexit rules and the UK’s Covid travel restrictions. In addition to a shortage of truck drivers, confusion over customs declarations and delays in transporting goods have contributed the exacerbating the problem.

In some areas, certain supermarket shelves have been left completely bare, while others have expressed disbelief, claiming they’re yet to notice the shortages and ultimately labelling the concerns over food shortages a hoax.

But with new Brexit checks set to come into effect from 1st October, the food shortages look set to worsen. From that date, animal and plant products imported into the UK from the EU will require extra paperwork and border checks. The government hopes these checks will be “smooth and efficient”, but based on how Brexit has been handled since the referendum in June 2016, those reassurances aren’t particularly comforting.

Higher prices also expected
Moreover, the food industry says higher prices will be a practical guarantee as European producers pass on the cost of this red tape to British consumers. Just-in-time supply lines are also expected to be disrupted by the new arrangements, which will almost certainly bring about more food shortages.

In an extra twist to the new arrangements, both exports and imports of animal products will require inspection and certification from a vet as of 1st October. However, the UK is experiencing a huge shortage of vets at present, having been reliant on a flow of qualified vets from European countries. Between 80-100 vets used to arrive in the UK each month, but since the end of the transition period, only 20 per month are coming in, leaving a significant shortfall.

Lack of government funding for border control post
To conduct new checks, attempts to set up a border control post in Portsmouth has been impeded by a lack of government funding and no real knowledge over how much will flow through it. An estimated sum of £2.5 million was required to cover the costs of 30 new staff, but the city council claims only £500,000 has been given.

[Cherie]

I honestly haven't seen any food shortages as yet :think:

[arista]

^ That doesn't look real. :think:

Looks like the writing is from a paint program rather than chalk.


Yes It's not a real sign
ideal for Slim to post.

[bots]

Three is the latest mobile network to announce it is reintroducing roaming charges between the UK and Europe.

From 23 May 2022, customers who have taken out a new or upgraded contract after 1 October will have to pay £2 a day to use their monthly allowance of minutes, texts and calls in the EU.

It follows similar announcements from EE and Vodafone earlier this year.

Three is also extending changes to other destinations, introducing a £5 a day charge for roaming outside Europe.

The move effectively ends Three's long-standing roaming feature, branded "Go Roam", which allowed customers to use their contract allowances in 71 countries, including distant locations such as the USA, Hong Kong and Australia.

"This is a huge blow to Three customers," said Paolo Pescatore, a telecoms analyst at PP Foresight.

"Free roaming to so many destinations helped lure and retain users. Now this is no longer a differentiator, it will be hard for Three to stand out in an increasingly crowded and cut-throat market," he warned.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58501527

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8A1cTcWEAQgvEg?format=jpg&name=medium

:joker:

SO FAKE

[Tom4784]

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[Alf]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8A1cTcWEAQgvEg?format=jpg&name=mediumWhat a welcoming, inclusive, tolerant message.

You can respectfully tell the person who wrote it that I won't be ******* off. Most certainly not on their orders. Although I'm not a Tory voter, I was a leave voter.

[Tom4784]

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