Last week's announcement by Vodafone UK that they were scrapping their roaming charges for users of the Vodafone Passport service was a welcome levelling of the billing system to the problem of calls made abroad. The offer makes it simple to understand what your bill for calls, texts and MMS's will be when you are travelling in Europe, New Zealand or Australia – you'll pay exactly the same as you would when at home. Read on for my comments.
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Nice, but where the networks such as Vodafone give with one hand they take with the other. For example Vodafone charge �1.75 per minute to call the UK from Dubai/UAE (and many other "rest of world" countries) and �1.25 per minute to receive calls.
I have a Geosim global sim card from www.globalsimcard.co.uk. I use all over the world and can have my O2 number forward calls to it for free. I think Orange allow free forwarding to geosim numbers too.
I am worried that we're slowly becoming like the US where they have to pay to make AND receive calls even when in their home country.
I have seen brief info on this and it's in the pipeline too, has anyone got anymore info on this please?
car_guy143 wrote:I am worried that we're slowly becoming like the US where they have to pay to make AND receive calls even when in their home country.I have seen brief info on this and it's in the pipeline too, has anyone got anymore info on this please?
Vivianne Reading, EU comissioner for for information society and media, did make such a suggestion late 2007 or early 2008. The idea was opposed by pretty much every other European institution and quietly buried.
(That was a really bad idea, but otherwise Mrs. Reading has done helluva good job as comissioner. Sad to se her leave the Comission after the next EU parliament elections)
Being cynical, isn't it amazing that this 3 month offer starts on the day that 3UK withdraw "3 like home"?