Political relations between UK-EU

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bluethrunthru said:
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Try this one

www.independent.co.uk

EE confirms roaming charges in Europe – follow Brexit

Follow the action as it happened
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As I posted in the Irish thread, the ESRI here have predicted an 11% increase in the economy which is around double theirs and the governments last estimate.
Exports to the EU are up at around 23% currently while exports to UK have fallen from approximately 40% down to about 24%.
These figures are from memory of yesterday’s RTE news, I haven’t googled but I think I’m accurately recalling the figures given.
 
Roaming charges will be interesting (a complete ballache) along the border.

I've a caravan close to the border...but still very much in NI and our phones regularly switch between UK/RoI.....even when just sitting watching TV....or popping to the shops.....we are talking approx 10miles from the border
 
AlexWilliamsGloves said:
Roaming charges will be interesting (a complete ballache) along the border.

I've a caravan close to the border...but still very much in NI and our phones regularly switch between UK/RoI.....even when just sitting watching TV....or popping to the shops.....we are talking approx 10miles from the border
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I believe NI is exempt from the roaming charges.
 
AlexWilliamsGloves said:
O2 have said they will apply in NI....

m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

O2 customers to face new EU roaming charges

O2 customers will face new roaming charges when travelling to the EU if they go above a certain level of data usage, the network has said.
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what was it Johnson said - " NI gets the best of the deal by being both out of the EU and part of the UK bust still in the EU and able to trade" ? He is such a duplicitous ****.
 
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AlexWilliamsGloves said:
O2 have said they will apply in NI....

m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

O2 customers to face new EU roaming charges

O2 customers will face new roaming charges when travelling to the EU if they go above a certain level of data usage, the network has said.
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I should have been more precise. They don't apply in ROI so given the interconnectivity of NI and ROI then as I understand it they can’t apply to NI users on ROI networks near the border. The roaming charges will apply to NI residents who travel to the continent.

This is my reading of it, so I could be talking bollocks :)

Do NI users have contracts with ROI providers? If they did I imagine NI residents could also escape the charges on the continent.
 
BobKowalski said:
I should have been more precise. They don't apply in ROI so given the interconnectivity of NI and ROI then as I understand it they can’t apply to NI users on ROI networks near the border. The roaming charges will apply to NI residents who travel to the continent.

This is my reading of it, so I could be talking bollocks :)

Do NI users have contracts with ROI providers? If they did I imagine NI residents could also escape the charges on the continent.
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eir today, gone tomorrow?
 
BobKowalski said:
I should have been more precise. They don't apply in ROI so given the interconnectivity of NI and ROI then as I understand it they can’t apply to NI users on ROI networks near the border. The roaming charges will apply to NI residents who travel to the continent.

This is my reading of it, so I could be talking bollocks :)

Do NI users have contracts with ROI providers? If they did I imagine NI residents could also escape the charges on the continent.
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My contract is with Virgin Mobile....a UK contract....but as you approach and/or approach the border you get a "Welcome to Ireland" roaming notification and if you have roaming on, it just automatically switches to a RoI network....at no extra cost. But i border towns/locations this can happen literally when crossing the road or popping to the shop....

In fairness, i think providers are implementing a new fair usage policy...so charges likely to only kick in once you exceed a data limit....so simple flicking from one network to another as above, is unlikely to have a big impact.

So if we get a "positive" solution to this, thats different from GB....will people complain about it, or is access to sausages more important????
 
I've been with O2 for several years. The blurb says that I will be charged £3.50 if I go over 25GB of data whilst I am out of the UK. I have a 100GB monthly allowance, but I have used just over 28MB so far this month, so I think I'll be pretty safe if/when I go to France or Spain. The annoying thing is that O2 re owned by Telephonica, a Spanish company, so it's just pure profit for them. Still, it's better than queueing up at a telephone box with a handfull of Francs, Pesetas, Euros, etc.
 
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