Roaming charges from country to country in Europe
If I purchase a SIM card for Germany, and I wander over to Salzburg, for example, would I be roaming? How is roaming defined and how does it work?
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Wikipedia has all the gory details. Basically, in Europe, licenses for mobile phone operators are issued by each country and networks in different countries are generally separate even if they are operated by subsidiaries of the same parent company or share the same brand (I write “generally” because I am not entirely sure that it's always the case but it's been my experience; In theory, I guess a carrier could cover several countries with the same network or several carriers could strike a deal to let each other's roaming customers use both networks without extra charges).
In the European Union, the Commission has been pushing for lower prices for quite some time and there is a price cap for roaming charges (but between EU-based carriers, I don't know if those rule apply to customer coming from outside the EU). I also heard about some projects to remove them entirely, at least between some countries, but I don't know their exact status. Note that you will usually receive a SMS informing you of the roaming charges as soon as you connect to another network (again, this is my experience using a phone from an EU-based carrier in another EU country, not sure if all of this applies if your home network is somewhere else in the world).
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As of 2017, while you may be roaming, (EU) operators will no longer be able to charge additional roaming charges within the EU, per EU law.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/27/europe-abolishes-mobile-phone-roaming-charges
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