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It is one of the immediately noticeable effects of the European Union: since the union of states abolished roaming charges in 2017, mobile customers in all EU countries can surf, check e-mails, chat and stream without having to fear high additional costs.
This no longer applies to the British.
The mobile phone provider Three has announced that it will draw conclusions from Brexit.
The mobile phone providers Vodafone and EE had already announced tariff changes in August: From January, their British customers will pay roaming charges when they travel to EU countries. Three does not want to tighten the fee screw until next May. New customers should then pay two British pounds per day - the equivalent of 2.34 euros. This places the provider in line with the competition. However, not all cell phone contracts are affected. Old customers are to be excluded for the time being, and there are tariffs that already include roaming charges.
German mobile customers can currently continue to benefit from the EU's roaming agreement when they travel to Great Britain.
It was only in August that Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom announced that they had no plans to reintroduce roaming charges for the country.
According to the companies, this will also be the case with O2 and 1 & 1 until the end of the year.
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