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Another Brexit Win
Mobile phone roaming charges
Martin Lewis, of MoneySavingExpert, says: 'I've no faith in mobile firms to self-regulate. When we left the EU, they promised not to reintroduce European roaming charges, yet most of the big networks have broken that promise. We need formal, compulsory consumer protections.'
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Martin Lewis, of MoneySavingExpert, says: 'I've no faith in mobile firms to self-regulate. When we left the EU, they promised not to reintroduce European roaming charges, yet most of the big networks have broken that promise. We need formal, compulsory consumer protections.'
Read the full story here:-
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Governments have no business regulating product prices for goods or services where there are plenty of providers. The EU excels at it, normal countries don't entertain it.
A snippet from the article:
//...and many firms charge significantly more for using your mobile phone outside of the EU.//
Which they always have done. So what has that to do with Brexit?
A snippet from the article:
//...and many firms charge significantly more for using your mobile phone outside of the EU.//
Which they always have done. So what has that to do with Brexit?
Perhaps I could put it another way:
Q. What has this got to do with Brexit?:
//...and many firms charge significantly more for using your mobile phone ***outside of the EU.***//
And how does this answer the above question?:
A: If we were still in the EU, mobile phone companies would not be able to rip-off UK customers who roam from one country to another ***(within the EU)***.
Perhaps I can help. Mobile providers have always charged the market rate for use of their services outside the EU. Brexit has not changed that. So the answer to my question is "nothing".
What Brexit has changed is that it has enabled UK customers' providers to similarly charge their customers the market rate for their services within the EU (instead of being artificially constrained by a supra-national government). So the Brexit "win" is that companies can charge for their services as they see fit. Customers must shop around to find a deal that suits them best. It's called "market forces" - something the EU is not particularly fond of.
Q. What has this got to do with Brexit?:
//...and many firms charge significantly more for using your mobile phone ***outside of the EU.***//
And how does this answer the above question?:
A: If we were still in the EU, mobile phone companies would not be able to rip-off UK customers who roam from one country to another ***(within the EU)***.
Perhaps I can help. Mobile providers have always charged the market rate for use of their services outside the EU. Brexit has not changed that. So the answer to my question is "nothing".
What Brexit has changed is that it has enabled UK customers' providers to similarly charge their customers the market rate for their services within the EU (instead of being artificially constrained by a supra-national government). So the Brexit "win" is that companies can charge for their services as they see fit. Customers must shop around to find a deal that suits them best. It's called "market forces" - something the EU is not particularly fond of.
//No they haven’t. It used to be free in Turkey with a Vodafone.//
Clearly what they considered to be the market rate, Zacs. The market rate does not have to be the highest rate or a uniform rate. It simply has to be what the provider considers it can charge.
//The Brexiteers, as usual, bend over backwards to deny it.//
Deny what? The idea of Brexit is to rid the UK of the EU's pernicious influence over its affairs. That includes things like regulating private companies' pricing policies as mentioned here. If the UK government wants to introduce similar legislation it can do so. They could either do so off their own bat, or it could be included in party manifestos at the next GE. Or, of course, they need not.
Clearly what they considered to be the market rate, Zacs. The market rate does not have to be the highest rate or a uniform rate. It simply has to be what the provider considers it can charge.
//The Brexiteers, as usual, bend over backwards to deny it.//
Deny what? The idea of Brexit is to rid the UK of the EU's pernicious influence over its affairs. That includes things like regulating private companies' pricing policies as mentioned here. If the UK government wants to introduce similar legislation it can do so. They could either do so off their own bat, or it could be included in party manifestos at the next GE. Or, of course, they need not.
