DIGI Mobil, Orange, Vodafone, Telekom have, starting from July 1, 2022, new tariffs for customers who go on vacation and need roaming, they have been officially announced by ANCOM, and they apply to everyone starting from the last few days . The measure is applied exclusively within the EEA space, so the European Union together with Iceland and Norway, without Great Britain and Gibraltar, which left the European community, and after January 1, 2021 they no longer have roaming agreements.
DIGI Mobil, Orange, Vodafone, Telekom will continue to offer their customers the free roaming quotas they were used to, but for exceeding the allocation, lower surcharges will be charged than those that were charged until now. According to the new measure, the following surcharges will be applied: 2 Euro/GB, for internet, 0,55 Euro cents/minute for incoming calls, 2,2 Euro cents/minute for initiated calls and 0,4 Euro cents/SMS for sent SMS, all without VAT.
Prices are falling, but quality is increasing in the European Union
Vodafone, Orange, Telekom, DIGI Mobil will also slightly increase the allowances that customers have since the surcharges have decreased, but the differences compared to what has been offered so far are not that big, but anything that comes in addition is a nice bonus. You know very well that in the case of internet traffic, the allocation is calculated according to the price of the subscription, or the prepay extra option, which the customer pays, so we do not benefit from all the traffic that we normally have in the country.
Apart from these price changes, the new EU roaming regulation obliges Telekom, DIGI Mobil, Orange, Vodafone, as well as operators from other countries, to offer quality services in roaming as well, so we should benefit from the same services as in the country of origin. This means access to the 3G, 4G, 5G networks in the destination country as if we were in the country of origin, something that does not really happen because the operators did not want to overload their networks with external traffic.
The European Union announced yesterday that free roaming will be extended throughout the European community for another 10 years, so this new regulation will apply until 2032 for hundreds of millions of Europeans who use telecommunications services.
