Free data roaming in Europe, what does it mean? That mobile phone users traveling within the Union can continue to use their mobile phones at no additional cost, in addition to national ones
Abolition of surcharges for mobile roaming expiring in June, same costs, quality and speed of the mobile connection abroad as at home: these are the summary news of the new regulation on European roaming in force from 1 July 2022 recalls Studio Cataldi. The regulation renews the ‘Roam Like At Home’ for a further 10 years, ie until 2032, representing a further step towards “a European digital single market”.
Among the features, not only the possibility of using the internet in the EU as at home, and therefore calling, sending messages and surfing at no additional cost, but also to be enabled for 5G networks and to have transparency and clarity on the services that could be subject to additional costs.
Emergency services and additional services
Travelers and people with disabilities will have free access to emergency services, for both calls and text messages, including the transmission of caller location information. In addition, operators will have to provide information on the European emergency number 112.
With regard to services that could be subject to additional costs, the regulation requires operators to inform consumers via automatic text messages that you cross the border with another EU country, as well as provide information on telephone numbers that could entail costs when calling. from abroad and automatically stop mobile services on networks that reach certain costs.
Limits to navigation
However, even if it is generally not highlighted, on the UK front the rates are not always “like at home”. In fact, if calls and text messages work as in Italy, for online browsing the amount of GB usable in the EU is often subject to a ceiling, beyond which you pay according to consumption. It must be said, however, that the regulation by reducing wholesale costs is allowing operators to increase the amount of data offered to users.
In addition, wholesale roaming charges (that is, the price that operators would charge each other when their customers use other networks) will be limited to € 2 per Gigabyte from 2022 and will be progressively reduced to € 1 in 2027. users should exceed their contractual limits while roaming, any additional costs may not exceed the wholesale roaming limits.
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