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The EU has renewed its caps on mobile roaming, this time including a cap on data roaming and a promise to let travellers choose their roaming carrier by 2014, all coming in from 1 July. At the end of next month anyone travelling in Europe will pay no more than 56 pence (€0.70) a megabyte for data, 23 pence (€0.29) per minute …

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  1. Mike Flex

    It'll be cheaper to use my Orange PAYG phone for data in Europe than in the UK. (I don't have a bundled data tariff on it.)

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    "one might be a Vodafone customer while in the UK, but might decide that EE has better roaming rates thanks to their international presence, so one signs a roaming contract with EE"

    Sounds great, but how on earth does that work at the technical (i.e. GSM) level? And the billing infrastructure?

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      I'd assume they'd beef up the number porting infrastructure so when you roam your number is temporarily ported to your roaming provider. I'd assume two porting tables instead of one: one for when you're inside your country, one for when you're outside.

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  3. MooseMonkey

    O2 new data tariff

    Looks like O2 have announced a data tariff, £1.99 per day for 25MB in europe, that looks like a slightly better rate! No details as yet, but may be a prepay thing

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  4. Vistaro

    Who is "EE"

    Your artcle mentions using "EE" who are they ? Can they offer cheaper roaming?

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    1. diodesign (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge
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      Re: Who is "EE"

      EE is Everything Everywhere. Apologies if this isn't clear, we try to make it so.

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