Ondrej Holzman On Thursday, June 15, the law that abolishes roaming charges in the territory of the European Union entered into force. Customers who use their mobile phone abroad will now pay the same prices for calls, messages and data as at home, with no additional charges.
This is a long-awaited and much-welcomed change by customers, because until now the practice was that as soon as you connected to a foreign operator's network, so-called roaming was automatically added to calls, messages and mobile data, which often raised the fees to dizzying heights, especially for mobile internet.
"The European Union is about bringing people together and making their lives easier. The end of roaming charges is a real European success. Eliminating roaming is one of the EU's biggest and most tangible achievements," cost in the statement of the European Commission on the new law.
The negotiations took a really long time, the agreement between the EU member states and the operators was reached after almost ten years. However, from June 15, 2017, roaming is really over. It is important to note, however, that this measure only applies to member states of the European Union, plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
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Jak points out dTest, neither Switzerland nor Albania and Montenegro belong to the European Union. In Bulgaria, Croatia or Greece, where Czechs often go on vacation, all mobile services are already at the same prices as at home.
We also mention countries where the end of roaming does not apply for the reason that you need to be careful in border areas. Mobile phones here switch to the strongest networks in the area, which may be from a country where roaming still applies, so you could pay extra unnecessarily.
After the abolition of roaming within the EU, there is one more thing to be careful about, and that is international calling. If you call from the Czech Republic to another country, it is not roaming (it only works the other way around), and therefore you may be charged a higher amount.
All three large Czech operators have already reacted to the abolition of roaming and charge their clients in selected European countries the same prices as at home for all mobile services. O2 has already joined T-Mobile and Vodafone from last week.
so when my mother calls Germany on my number, she will pay according to the price list for another country, and if I call her in guilds, she will pay according to my tariff, which I have in CR? and I have 500mb internet in the tariff, can it also be used in Germany?
Yes, you got that right. If you have a tariff from a Czech operator, you will be able to use it in Germany under the same conditions as at home. However, calls from the Czech Republic to Germany will continue to be charged.
If mom calls him on a Czech number, she doesn't care what country he's in, right? She doesn't even need to know that he is in Germany, so she will call him at the normal local rate, i.e. like in the Czech Republic.
certainly not. If the Czech number is located abroad, the caller calls at a higher price. Try it though :)
I think it's the format that matters. If I dial +420 or 00420, it is a Czech call under the terms of the tariff.
If I only call a number without prefixes - for example 772750582, I am calling for international roaming.
Is that so or do I have to ask if it is in roaming via iZpravy first, so that I don't pay unnecessarily and use Skype or the called person calls my device himself?
Without 420 at the beginning, the call to the Czech Republic will not be connected.
From the Czech Republic it is treated as if it were there, from abroad either a local call connects you (if the number exists) or it simply does not connect at all.
If someone calls you and you are abroad in the EU, you do not pay anything (incoming calls are free). He pays according to his tariff to the given country.
If you call home from the EU, you pay the rate for calls to other networks according to your tariff (so if you have unlimited calls, you don't pay anything).
And what if I call from Germany to Germany and have a Czech number?
The VF operator states that calls or SMS to any number in zone 1 (that is, also in Germany) are charged the same as at home. So if I have free units (minutes or SMS) to all networks, then I also have them free from Germany to all networks. If I don't have free units in all networks, then I either call (or text) a Czech number (even if it's abroad, it doesn't matter), which is still a reasonable price, or I call a foreign number, which is charged as a call abroad according to zones (e.g. to Germany CZK 11,50 per minute). I hope I understand it correctly.
It is necessary to turn it on, otherwise the iPhone will not connect for data to a network other than the parent network.
Take it as roaming has not been abolished - only the fees for it have been abolished.