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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
Even the sim cards as roaming charges set to be reintroduced,
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The UK could always legislate against roaming charges if it wanted to, as that's all the EU has done, there is no EU funding mechanism for it.
The deflating balloon continues to deflate.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57595913
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Mobile operator EE will charge new customers extra to use their mobile phones in Europe from January.
Those joining or upgrading from 7 July 2021 will be charged £2 a day to use their allowances in 47 European destinations from January 2022.
EE previously said it had no plans to reintroduce roaming charges in Europe.
It is the first UK operator to reintroduce the charges since the Brexit trade deal was signed at the end of December.
Mobile networks in EU countries are not allowed to charge customers extra to use their phones in other EU countries, within fair use limits.
EE, O2, Three and Vodafone had all stated they had no plans to reintroduce roaming charges, despite Brexit giving them the option to do so.
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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
The EU hold the cards here.......
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Agreed
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This debate over the relative merits of Brexit rages each time there is a story about exporters struggling to sell goods to Europe or whether the UK was able to vaccinate faster than Europe because of Brexit. The British government often leads the charge in these arguments, not least because Johnson led the 2016 Brexit campaign.
EU officials and diplomats fear this sort of tit-for-tat politics will be an unfortunate but permanent fixture of UK-EU relations for the foreseeable future. They also suspect it is, in part at least, an exercise in distracting the British public from the reality of life as a small nation negotiating with the world's largest trading bloc.
"For us, Brexit should be over. But we are now in a situation where we have to negotiate with a UK that is fooling itself into thinking it's as powerful as the EU," said one senior EU diplomat.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/23/u...cmd/index.html