Bodhi
Once agreed with Scouse and a LibDem at same time
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Something included in the contract is "extra" is it.
K m8. Seems your maths is just as lacking as your comprehension skills. £30 = £30, so is the same.
Divot.
Politics POLL: Brexit Withdrawal Agreement
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Something included in the contract is "extra" is it.
K m8. Seems your maths is just as lacking as your comprehension skills. £30 = £30, so is the same.
Divot.
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Stop playing dumb. If your contract is £50 without roaming and £60 with, then roaming is a tenner extra.
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Yet. They'll use it as a differentiator for a while, but eventually if everyone is doing it then it's stupid business to not grab the free cash whilst they're allowed to.
Tom
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I'm going to O2 I think. I'll have to check but I'm hoping I can sign up to a two-year SIM-only contract with EU roaming included. And I have Virgin broadband which apparently will give me x2 data allowance.
Bye bye Giffgaff, it's been fun for the 3 weeks I've been with you.
Bye bye Giffgaff, it's been fun for the 3 weeks I've been with you.
Gwadien
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gunner440
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I reckon even without the whole Brexit thing, that the UK providers would have ended up doing something about the more than generous roaming tariffs. Over here (south of Spain) the number of expats using their UK numbers as primary means of contact was huge. I'm talking about several years or even decades in some cases.
It was at the end of 2020 (I think?) where the a lot of these users here received letters from their phone companies saying that their unlimited roaming would be removed, followed by their average usage and the average customer's usage (3x less than these power users).
I get the unlimited usage but I don't think it was used as intended where people were in their 'home' (read: phone company's country of operations) country a month a year at most.
It was at the end of 2020 (I think?) where the a lot of these users here received letters from their phone companies saying that their unlimited roaming would be removed, followed by their average usage and the average customer's usage (3x less than these power users).
I get the unlimited usage but I don't think it was used as intended where people were in their 'home' (read: phone company's country of operations) country a month a year at most.
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Doesn't matter where you are @gunner440 - the technology is agnostic to countries. It has to be programmed to charge for different borders.
"Roaming" is the default. And is actually a marketing term for "we want to charge you extra for using your mobile phone" - which is why those charges were banned until brexit.
"Roaming" is the default. And is actually a marketing term for "we want to charge you extra for using your mobile phone" - which is why those charges were banned until brexit.
I'm sure it's more that the providers have to pay to use infrastructure in other countries rather than borders. The tech might be agnostic (in that you can seamlessly switch from country to country) but there are still licenses and whatever else.
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Profiteering. They were all making a killing anyway.
There are agreements/arrangements in place for roaming within the EU (and the providers' ability to charge extra for it) and now the UK isn't in the club the providers can do what they want. Nothing's changed about the actual costs involved.
Tom
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Of course if the mobile phone companies were playing fair they'd tell us what these "connection charges" actually are. You know, considering each call or byte of data has to go through an office where a man stamps a form or something.
I mean, it isn't as though these calls aren't simply data, pootling along some internet cables somewhere, along with all the other data that's subsidised by everyone. It definitely isn't the case that they're just charging more because it's no longer illegal, is it?
I mean, it isn't as though these calls aren't simply data, pootling along some internet cables somewhere, along with all the other data that's subsidised by everyone. It definitely isn't the case that they're just charging more because it's no longer illegal, is it?
Gwadien
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It's pretty amazing.
I saw a quote earlier from the MP for Dover saying 'It's got nothing to do with Brexit, it's to do with the French not investing enough on their borders.'
So why are the French having to invest more into their borders? Because of aliens?
Hermann Hauser, founder of Arm: ‘Brexit is the biggest loss of sovereignty since 1066’
The doyen of the UK computing industry says that a hi-tech future will leave Britain no choice but to turn to Europe
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Because the bloody French voted for Brexit of course! They should bloody well have to pay!
Oh wait.....
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British wine wholesaler to leave UK over post-Brexit paperwork
Daniel Lambert, who supplies M&S, Waitrose and 300 independent retailers, to set up in France after £150,000 hole in revenue
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Jacob Rees-Mogg: I was wrong to say Brexit would not cause Dover delays
Minister blames France for recent problems and suggests Britons might go to Portugal instead
What a cunt.
Wij
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Brexit onslaught deepens as a third of all UK exporters to EU vanish due to red tape knockout - CityAM
The number of UK businesses exporting goods to the EU fell 33 per cent to 18,357 in 2021, from 27,321 in 2020.