Vodafone delays the reintroduction of roaming charges in European countries where the company is present for another three weeks. The phone network had planned to charge post-Brexit roaming fees on January 6, matching other networks that plan to do so throughout 2022.
However, the phone giant assured that even more time was needed for testing, and this change will now arrive at the end of March. Before the UK left the European Union, users could use their talk, text and data allowance on their mobile rates in any EU country. But the bloc’s December 2020 trade deal gave mobile operators the option to reintroduce charges.
Brexit set the tone
Britain’s Three has also said it will include roaming fee charges between the UK and Europe, although its model change is scheduled for May 2022. That means of the largest mobile networks , only O2 has not announced any plans. for the reintroduction of roaming charges on the European continent.
Explaining the reason for the delay of the planned changes, Vodafone has said that it was not ready to implement the new system. From the company they assure that they have delayed the introduction of roaming charges in their clients’ bills until the end of March, giving enough time to carry out more tests and thus guarantee the best possible experience for users who contract telephony packages with them.
The famous charge of one pound a day that exists throughout the British territory is the best price that Vodafone has offered to customers traveling to the United Kingdom and only applies when contracted in an eight or 15-day package. The usual planned price is two pounds a day on all rates, matching the planned price of other European telephone companies such as EE and Three.
In fact, EE itself assured just a few weeks ago that the change in its rates was caused by technical delays that the company refused to explain and specify. From the company they assured that making major changes to billing systems in mobile phone networks is always risky, and thus they justify the delay of several months in making effective the change they have been promising since the end of 2020.
Many users have started complaining via social media, and this is also a huge problem for carriers, as the backlash and negative publicity for any mobile network operator that does not get this Brexit-driven transition right, It would be immense if thousands of customers suddenly received a roaming bill with exorbitant figures.
