{"id":1427,"date":"2024-05-02T06:40:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T11:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itparadise.net\/2020\/12\/02\/uk-carrier-ee-introduces-eu-roaming-charges-following-brexit\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T08:56:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T13:56:35","slug":"uk-carrier-ee-introduces-eu-roaming-charges-following-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/?p=1427","title":{"rendered":"UK carrier EE introduces EU roaming charges following Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"4h0YM0\">UK carrier EE is introducing roaming charges for customers traveling to almost all EU countries from January next year, <em>BBC News<\/em> reports. The change applies to any customers who sign up or upgrade their plans after July 7th. From next year, these customers will be charged a flat fee of \u00a32 (around $2.78) a day while in 47 \u201cEuropean destinations,\u201d to get access to their plan\u2019s existing data, minutes, and text allowances. The BT-owned carrier is also selling a 30-day Roam Abroad Pass, which is included with certain plans.<\/p>\n<p id=\"0aJvPy\">Roaming charges for UK customers visiting mainland Europe used to be commonplace until the European Union outlawed the practice in 2017. However, following the UK\u2019s departure from the EU, which involved a transition period that ended on December 31st 2020, UK carriers no longer have to abide by these rules. The UK\u2019s trade deal with the EU encourages them to have \u201ctransparent and reasonable rates\u201d for roaming, according to <em>BBC News<\/em>, but the charges aren\u2019t specifically prohibited.<\/p>\n<p><q>The fees cover 47 European destinations<\/q><\/aside>\n<p id=\"16oFbv\">The 47 European destinations include EU member states, plus other locations like the Canary Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, and Vatican City. Customers will not be charged an extra fee to use their phones in the Republic of Ireland, EE says.<\/p>\n<p id=\"3h00Zj\">EE\u2019s decision makes it the first UK carrier to introduce roaming charges post-Brexit. It\u2019s a marked shift from what it told <em>BBC News<\/em> in January, when it said that its customers \u201cenjoy inclusive roaming in Europe and beyond\u201d and that it didn\u2019t \u201chave any plans to change this based on the Brexit outcome.\u201d <\/p>\n<p id=\"2Eqfl0\">Competitors Three and O2 have also made changes to how much data their customers can use while in Europe, but have stopped short of introducing blanket charges for all usage. O2 is adding a fair use cap of 25GB a month for users in the EU, while Three is reducing its existing cap from 20GB to 12GB, <em>BBC News <\/em>reports.<\/p>\n<p id=\"W5t4lQ\">In a statement, an EE spokesperson said the charges \u201cwill support investment into our UK based customer service and leading UK network.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK carrier EE is introducing roaming charges for customers traveling to almost all EU&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[59,38,57,61,58,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1940,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}