Michal Ždanský Users can rejoice, while mobile operators will be sad. The European Union plans to completely abolish roaming charges next year as part of an effort to create a single common telecommunications market in Europe, which is connected to other planned reforms in the field of telecommunications.
On Tuesday, 27 European commissioners voted for the package, which should pass before the European Parliament elections next year. If everything goes smoothly, the regulation to abolish roaming charges should enter into force on 1 July 2014. The detailed text of the proposals should be available in the next few weeks.
Roaming fees are one of the most expensive services of operators, one minute of a call abroad in the territory of the European Union can easily cost several tens of crowns, and careless surfing on the Internet can be reflected in the bill even within thousands of crowns. It is clear that operators will rebel against such regulations and lobby for their non-implementation. However, according to the EU, the cancellation of roaming could pay off for operators in the long term, as their customers will make more calls abroad. However, due to the flat tariffs offered by, for example, Czech operators, this claim does not fall entirely on fertile ground.
According to Brussels, the abolition of fees should also help the fragmented infrastructure, the quality of which varies significantly from state to state. International operators would compete more and form alliances similar to airlines, which could later lead to mergers.
However, the approved package will also bring something positive for the operators. For example, it will introduce measures to simplify operations across the EU by harmonizing the dates of international frequency sales. Operators will also be able to operate outside the allocated blocks based on authorization from a national regulator such as the Czech Telecommunications Authority.
I would say you have a mistake in "2004" there.. Did you mean "2014" by any chance? :)
If it goes through, we don't have to wait for a Czech revolution among operators :)
jn .. if I understand it correctly (roaming cancellation works) .. there will be a big emigration to other operators :-D
I'm sorry for a possibly stupid question, but if I buy a tariff from an operator in Austria, for example, will I get a signal here? thanks a lot
I don't know how it is solved (probably contracts), but when you go abroad, your operator is "changed" to a local (contracted) operator. Interesting that in Austria I had O2 - T-mobile and in Poland Vodafone (I think).
Otherwise, as I wrote above, the prices for termination and origination will have to be adjusted. Furthermore, it would probably also lead to a change of operators (Vodafone, T-mobile and maybe even O2 would probably cancel their "branches" and establish a pan-European operator - so they would also have a common infrastructure. )
I don't know how it is in other EU countries, but in Austria, if you do not have a permanent or temporary residence there, or you are not employed there or you do not have a registered company there, the operator will not conclude a contract with you.
When I go to Carinthia to ski, I usually buy their internet subscriptions, €10 1,5 GB FUP or €15 3 GB FUP, and it's the same with regular calls.
Don't worry. As I already wrote in one post about operators, the market will improve (perhaps) by the end of the year. It is already gradually showing itself with virtual operators. They will "culminate" at the end of the summer. Then maybe a decision will be made about the 4th operator - hopefully positively. And also about the regulation of the oligopolistic market (virtual operators are only a virtual solution to this problem - hopefully the CTU will not catch on to it).
Abolishing roaming in the EU would be the icing on the cake. (but juicy). But then there still has to be some regulation of origination and termination by the EU. Because every regulator is different. – I would even see possible discrimination here, if the EU does not take it over. And my concern is related to that. ČTÚ has now acquired a new – capable – director, who must gain room for the (above-mentioned) changes. Only after these changes, the EU could take over (apparently BEREC) regulation.
That's the way it's supposed to be. After all, it's nonsense for me to travel a couple of hundred kilometers and pay for roaming, because I don't even know where I crossed a border. When you are in the USA, you will travel an incredibly large area and still function without roaming. American has roaming, just like that in Canada, Mexico and when it goes to Europe, Asia and Africa. Well.. and even Europeans have the right to this. It's finally here.
And I also want a uniform price for cars, food, fuel, the same amount of salaries for comparable positions, etc.!
The EU is really making fun of us. They make themselves visible through similar regulatory measures in the field of telecommunications and at the same time they import the same packaged Milka with a lower cocoa content, a new Škoda costs 150 CZK more here, pensions and salaries are 5 times lower, etc. Even though I travel abroad quite regularly, roaming is not what tears my veins!
so move away. I have a higher salary than the daily average. 3200 € I do not question. Maybe you have less because you don't have an education or you don't try very hard.
Unfortunately, you didn't understand anything. This problem lies further than behind the tip of your nose.
I indicated here how absurd it is to focus on one segment while artificially regulating the market and ignore all others. It then makes no sense in economic reality. This is not the first EU regulation in the field of mobile telephony.
I don't intend to move and my income is definitely above the DE average as well. At the same time, I perceive what the average is in our country. And more than your income, I am offended by your poor grammar.
"one minute of a call abroad in the territory of the European Union states can easily cost several tens of crowns"
– here the author lacks a bit of education and for 10 kroner the operator would have been fined for several years. This was previously regulated by European regulation and today there is an upper ceiling for any call in the EU (specifically, 2012 – 29 cents is the ceiling).
In addition, the article talks about the cancellation of roaming and that is also not true, from 1.7. 2014 will be about the possibility of purchasing an alternative roaming operator (this applies to CTU as of today.)
This is how a boulevard is formed and I influence the sheep when you throw this kind of crap at them and then I explain it in the pub that they are doing better elsewhere oh yeah....
Hello Vlad, I entered a query in the search engine and it found the O2 Smart Roaming tariff outgoing calls CZK 30,25/min, incoming calls CZK 24,20/min (second EU tariff zone) - http://www.o2.cz/osobni/roaming/139477-ceny_volne_minuty.html. The 29 cent cap only applies from July 2013…
The important thing is that if the proposal passes, I will call within the EU at the same prices as at home.
And what about presets? Will there be a uniform area code for the European Union?