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Find out whether your next trip to an EU country could be affected by Vodafone’s reintroduced roaming fees for the region. Skip to main content. News. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call ...
The mobile network is following EE in bringing back charges which were initially scrapped when the UK was still part of the EU in June 2017.
The initial proposal for a fair use policy was published on 5 September 2016. It would have limited the amount of free roaming to 90 days in a calendar year and a maximum of 30 consecutive days, after which regulated roaming charges (now in force) would apply. Registering in your home network on a given day would not count that day towards the ...
Termination rates have also played a major role in recent regulation to cap the high cost of roaming in the European Union, where customers paid historically on average almost €1.50/minute in roaming charges. Ultimately, roaming charges have been capped at twice termination rates. [22]
Under the 2012 Regulation, retail roaming capping charges expired in 2017 and wholesale capping charges expired in 2022. In mid-2009 there was also an €0.11 (excluding tax) maximum price for SMS text message included into this regulation. On 11 June 2013, the European Commission voted to end mobile roaming charges for the first time. [7]
Vodafone said that it was 'very sorry' that customers were hit with thousands of pounds in roaming charges and had their phone services cut off on Sunday.
If a subscriber is roaming on a different company's network, the subscriber, instead of the caller, may pay a surcharge for the connection time. International roaming calls are often quite expensive, and as a result some companies require subscribers to grant explicit permission to receive calls while roaming to certain countries.
The company told investors that total revenues declined by 4.7% to 11.2bn euros (£9.9bn) for the third quarter of its current financial year.