I hate the price of roaming data. It is an incredible rip-off. But I also feel for the operators: having been encouraged by governments to pay exorbitant amounts to bid for 3G licences, they have to make money somehow.

It seems as if the high cost of roaming is effectively due to a non-tax tax. Or am i wrong?

Then they could have told the governments to take a hike as apart from e-mail and the odd bit of surfing, I don't think 3G is that good