Why hasn't the albloodymighty EU sorted this roaming business out? It takes the power to tell my parish council what colour bins to use which is none of its fucking business but it can't persuade pan-EU companies to expand profitable services which it is already delivering on some devices but not others. I wonder why that would be?
Oh, yes. It cannot force them to stop committing daylight robbery on millions of citizens as it has repeatedly promised to do, you know, in the interest of cross-border trade, because the fucking EU is useless in delivering free trade which is the only answer to this sort of crap. Free the market and companies will sell products people want to buy.
Telecoms is still a nationalised industry - nationalised by the EU and its Byzantine regulations - in everything but the last technicality: legal title to brand and assets. It's not enough.
Fuck off out of the commercial world, politicians. Fuck right off. As soon as you like. Oh... wait...
Bastards.
Seems like you've still no joy Prodicus. Can't you get a cheap simcard? Tesco's cheap 99p ones work in 02 locked phones. I know because the Tesco one works fine in my old 02 phone. It would seem Tesco leech off 02 or something technical like that.
ReplyDeleteIt's not a normal sim but a microsim. It's not the cost of the sim, anyway, which is normally pence or even zero. It's connection costs once you're on the move across borders. Seven euros per Mb is one quote... *faints*. Intolerable, unaffordable. Unless you're a director of O2 or Vodaphone and on exes, obviously.
ReplyDeleteAnd the same applies to Blackberry and other phones. Roaming costs are a sick joke.
ReplyDeleteAs for O2, there is no microsim available from them which supports roaming AT ALL.
Whatever makes you think the EU is in favour of free trade?
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