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I'm currently outside the EU and O2 want to charge me £6 for ever MB of data I use. So with 1MB of data being basically useless I'm clearly not going to turn on roaming and I assume almost nobody would. So surely O2 are shooting themselves in the foot here. Charge a high but realistic fee for a decent amount of data and I'd definitely pay and they'd have made an extra ~£20 out of me this week instead of nothing.
Does anyone actually pay for roaming data at these rates?
It's capped at £40 IIRC, I forget what the max data limit is though.
edit yep, limited to £40 and 50MB per billing month. So if you're going to use it, use it all.
Agreed seems a bit shortsighted but I imagine they make their money from business users who just pay it regardless. I always kept my roaming data off and used hotel wifi, now with three it's included so using it more.
Totally agree with the OP - for years the rates were so stupid I'd turn off data roaming the moment I left the UK and didn't dare turn it on again - frankly I wouldn't use the thing at all unless I had to.
Now with the new EU rules I'm quite happy to use it abroad, my bill from a week's trip to France this year was about £20 of roaming fees and whatever else - it's a price I'll pay and £20 EE wouldn't have had otherwise.
I just went to Sweden, it was something like £2.50/day for 20MB/day, which is very little. So I kept roaming off. Still too expensive.
Do they allow you to buy it in advance?
With EE, I think you can let them know before you go and they charge you £3 for 50MB any day that you use it.
I'm currently outside the EU and O2 want to charge me £6 for ever MB of data I use.
Ouch! That's very pricey.
For comparison if you [url= https://www.o2.co.uk/shop/international/using-phone-in-europe ]activate O2 Travel[/url] then you pay £1.99 for one day of [i]unlimited[/i] data within Europe!
Yep. The £1.99 for unlimited in EU is great and I've used it before. Even if it was double that outside the EU I'd use it but no joy. I bet it's some shortsighted thinking that if I have data then I won't be using and roaming mins and texts as I'd just use apps that use the data instead but as it is I just don't use the phone unless I'm on hotel WIFI.
I bet it's some shortsighted thinking that if I have data then I won't be using and roaming mins and texts
I suspect it is just that they make most of their money on business users that [i]"need"[/i] data roaming outside the EU, regardless of the cost.
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Your network has to pay the network on which you are roaming when you use it. I suspect that the foreign networks are the ones putting the price through the roof tbh.
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Depends where the OP is.
Picking China as a random example, Three also charge £6 per MB.
With Three I can use my normal tariff minutes and MBs when roaming in many countries:
Australia
Austria
Denmark
Finland
France
Hong Kong
Indonesia
Israel
Italy
Macau
Norway
Republic of Ireland
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Switzerland
United States
It's the hotels that still charge ridiculous amounts for wifi that get me.
Always worth carrying a little wireless access point like a TP Link Nano in case the hotel has ethernet points in the room but charges more for wifi.
I hope companies sort something out. 20 or 50 MB is useless to me on average I use about 130mb a day.
EDIT delte double post
Not a service I use but I expect O2 view this in one of two ways
Analysis shows that his will yield the most profit. penalising business users who just carry on and the to dim to tun off roaming
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possibley
The billing etc. is just such a pain that we would rather nor bother. But as some people insist we'll charge so much that it'll put most people off