Roaming from O2 Ireland

It's been announced that O2 IRL are to drop roaming charges to Northern
Ireland as well as for business accounts for roaming in the UK. I wonder
if O2 UK will do likewise.

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Mike T

MikeT wrote:
> It's been announced that O2 IRL are to drop roaming charges to Northern
> Ireland as well as for business accounts for roaming in the UK. I wonder
> if O2 UK will do likewise.

It could and it wouldn't cost it much. The reason given for the one-way
arrangement was that the UK represented the RoI's biggest export market.

I would much prefer to see such arrangements with mainstream EU markets
such as Germany, France, Spain and Poland.

Colin Forrester wrote:
> MikeT wrote:
>> It's been announced that O2 IRL are to drop roaming charges to Northern
>> Ireland as well as for business accounts for roaming in the UK. I wonder
>> if O2 UK will do likewise.
>
> It could and it wouldn't cost it much. The reason given for the one-way
> arrangement was that the UK represented the RoI's biggest export market.
>
> I would much prefer to see such arrangements with mainstream EU markets
> such as Germany, France, Spain and Poland.

That's what the European Commission want to see. They want roaming
charges brought down to the same as cross-network calls at present -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4696494.stm

Alan

Alan J Robertson wrote:

>>> It's been announced that O2 IRL are to drop roaming charges to Northern
>>> Ireland as well as for business accounts for roaming in the UK. I
>>> wonder
>>> if O2 UK will do likewise.
>>
>> It could and it wouldn't cost it much. The reason given for the
>> one-way arrangement was that the UK represented the RoI's biggest
>> export market.
>>
>> I would much prefer to see such arrangements with mainstream EU
>> markets such as Germany, France, Spain and Poland.
>
> That's what the European Commission want to see. They want roaming
> charges brought down to the same as cross-network calls at present -
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4696494.stm

The EC have discussed this and threatened action on a number of
occasions. However they would probably have difficulty making the
change without new legislation and it is unlikely to be accepted by some
states - who probably see the figures improving their balance of payments.