A complete end to mobile roaming fee stress should hit Europe next year, thanks to EU politicians voting to approve and "fast track" into law regulations that stop the networks charging us any roaming fees while within the EU's member states. Read More >>
Featured comment by warriorscot:
"Because the minutes that are free are offered and operated under very tight margins and only apply based on the charge structure of the local area. No..." More »
Facebook has announced that, over the coming months, it will be partnering with 18 network operators in 14 countries to provide users with free or discounted data for some of its mobile apps. Read More >>
Roaming fees, capped rates and awkward daily allowances might soon be a thing of the past for European travelers, thanks to plans by four of the biggest EU telecom companies to launch one massive Europe-wide super-network. Read More >>
Featured comment by britishchris:
"Vodafone Eurotraveller is great...if you have a vodafone UK contract ;)
I average around 3GB a month when I'm in the UK (I don't know how...) so I k..." More »
Finally having 4G in the UK is awesome, even if it is horrendously expensive. But what about when you travel with your brand new 4G phone? Right now you can't get 4G abroad, even though lots of other countries have LTE networks -- you'll have to wait till 2013 to find out how much it's going to gouge your wallet. Read More >>
Featured comment by britishchris:
"Some networks are quite decent now. Vodafone charge you £3 a day when you're in the EU and that lets you use your UK allowances abroad, Three charge ..." More »
T-Mobile has joined O2, Vodafone and Three in offering a capped mobile data plan for travellers, so its users don't end up with a £150 phone bill for daring to send a horrified Tweet from the streets of Magaluf. Read More >>
Featured comment by raven:
"It was cheaper to get their (vodafones) £10 a month deal for 25mb per day and then cancel it when you get back, ive done this for the past 2 years ho..." More »
We've recently seen O2 and Vodafone launch their EU-wide roaming packages, designed to comply with new guidelines about not ripping off customers too much when they're on their hols. Now Three has come out with the details of its own, pricier option, called the Euro Internet Pass. Read More >>
Featured comment by Zack Dorey:
"You can use 'Personal Hotspot' with the iPhone on Three, not sure if this is only on 'all you can eat' data. I think this is the same a tethering? as ..." More »
Vodafone has joined O2 in offering a new cross-Europe mobile data and calling option, designed to help put an end to the sheer terror we feel upon landing in another country and imagining how ludicrous our next phone bill will be should we dare check Twitter in a moment of weakness. Read More >>
Featured comment by higgins91:
"Vodafone Euro Traveller works out incredibly expensive if you are mainly a data user with varied roamed call use.
Data Traveller cost only 10 pound..." More »
The final hurdle against the much needed EU mobile phone roaming cost cutting we heard about in March has been passed -- the European Union council has given the go-ahead, meaning capped costs for data from July 1st, just in time for live streaming of your summer holiday. Read More >>
O2 has launched a new bolt-on mobile package it's calling O2 Travel, which gives its monthly contract and pre-pay customers a cross-European bundle of calls and mobile data for a fixed price of £1.99 a day. Read More >>
First the House of Lords said no to rip-off roaming charges, now the EU has put its foot down too. The European Parliament has just agreed to cap roaming prices from July this year bringing calls, texts and data charges across Europe down to a more stomachable level so your Facebooking antics don’t have to stop at the border. Read More >>
Featured comment by emmanuel.makris:
"Whoah, the whole EEC/EU thing suddenly makes sense!
Kidding, in some obscure esoteric way I actually like the EU." More »
A House of Lords sub-committee has asked Ed Vaizey, the Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, to get tough on roaming mobile data fees, saying current high costs for cross-network data use put travellers off accessing "increasingly important smartphone services while abroad." Read More >>
Featured comment by eadingas:
"Doh!
It's a racket, plain and simple, and I don't get why it takes the EU commission so long to settle this out." More »