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International roaming (= the use of a provider from one country
in another) is usually very expensive. Local providers mainly
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compete for domestic customers and thus foreign and roaming
rates get less attention and remain quite high. That’s why in this
wiki it's recommended to buy a local SIM card abroad. This
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suggestion has the notable exception of so-called "free roaming
zones" shown in detail in this special article about European
Roaming Unions, that breaks away from the usual country
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articles.
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There are unions in Africa or South America, but they don't apply
to mobile internet use. In Europe, there are other bilateral free
roaming zones in place between two allies or neighbours: Ireland
and the UK agreed in 2020 to continue EU roaming in spite of
the UK having left the EU and Belarus and Russia agreed in 2018
on a mutual arrangement, but this hasn’t been put to work yet (h
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i). Additionally, in many dependent or attached territories
common roaming zones are in place: between KKTC (Northern
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Cyprus) and Turkey, or Crimea and Russia. The bilateral
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All incoming calls and texts are free within the union. For
TV outgoing calls and texts, the charge when roaming must not
exceed the usual charge that the customer pays on the
provider's domestic network for a call or text to mobile number
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which every minute of voice call, sent SMS or MB is charged, the
same domestic rate is applied in the roaming country. If you
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## MB/GB data for domestic use, your roaming consumption
comes out of this domestic package. If you hold an unlimited
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allowance for voice, SMS or data on your plan, all roaming calls
and SMS are taken from this plan and data up to a certain limit.
This also refers to bonuses, free add-ons, zero-rated offers or
anything similar.
Roaming
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 20
voice
€0.032 per minute
calls
texts
€0.01 per SMS
(SMS)
data
€7.70 €6.00 €4.50 €3.50 €3.00 €2
(per GB)
These prices on the table above are net rates without local sales
taxes (which vary between 17% and 25% according to country
and come on top). They are not direct price caps for consumers
or have any direct consequences for retail prices. They are
wholesale prices between operators and define the Fair Use
Policies (see below).
Geographical Scope
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European Union roaming regulations are valid in all present 27
EU member states marked in green on the map, including their
attached EU territories outside Europe: Austria, Belgium,
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Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Rep., Cyprus (South), Denmark,
Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland,
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Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands,
Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain,
Sweden, and in 3 more countries of the wider European
The legislation is not perfect and has created pitfalls for users
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who are not aware of some shortcomings. The following concern
mostly voice calls and SMS:
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In addition to that, there is still an odd distinction between
"foreign" calls or texts and "roaming" calls or texts. All IDD (or
cross-country) calls and texts from the home country (where the
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SIM card is hosted and issued) to a different EU/EEA country are
not covered by this legislation. This anomaly has made most
foreign calls more expensive than when roaming with the same
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WIKI SIM card abroad for calls to the home country. In 2019 the EU
started to close this gap by limiting the maximum price of a
foreign call to €0.19 per minute (plus tax, typically at around
€0.23 per min) and a foreign SMS to not more than €0.06 (plus
tax, typically around €0.07 per SMS). These prices are to be
gradually lowered in the next years by new EU legislation.
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Fair Use Policy - limits to Roam like at home
The industry term of "Fair Use Policy" (FUP) euphemises a
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throttle or any sort of limit to surcharge-free roaming according
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to the shown Roam like at home rules. A specific FUP of some
sort is nowadays applied by most operators in the EU/EEA
roaming zone for mobile internet, but not for voice or SMS.
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months period more than half of this time abroad or have used
more data abroad than domestic within this period, you may get
a message to change your roaming behaviour within the next
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is reversed, if you will be able to show "stable links" to the
roaming country.
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With unlimited data plans, that can be used abroad or very cheap
data packages available another FUP was introduced on a data
TV volume base and is now widely enforced. It's mentioned in the
national chapters as "EU cap" of each plan. According to its retail
price, only a certain portion of your domestic allowance is given
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as double amount of data available at the wholesale cap shown
above plus taxes as legal minimum. For overuse you will not be
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extra fees are limited to the wholesale cap (plus local taxes) and
will be debited in small MB-increments. In practice, this FUP
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packages for roaming too by capping them.
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facilitate accession process they agreed on a Regional Roaming
Agreement of their own, formally the "Agreement on the price
reduction of the roaming services in public mobile
communications networks in the Western Balkans region". The
FAN agreement came into effect in July 2019, with reduced tariffs.
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Since July 2021 all roaming surcharges have been removed,
meaning no surcharge to the domestic retail price for calls, SMS
& data while roaming in Western Balkans. The EU backed the
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The agreement concerns
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all mobile operators of six
Western Balkan states
shaded in green on the
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map: Albania, Bosnia-
Herzegovina, Kosovo,
North Macedonia,
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Montenegro and Serbia.
Be aware that it only
refers to voice, SMS and mobile data use within the common
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area, not to or from the neighbouring EU/EEA roaming zone.
Both roaming zones remain separate for now with steep
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Here, you don't need to buy an option for every country on its
own anymore. Better choose a common option for all countries
of the roaming zone instead, if you want to stay in different
places. You still need to buy a local offer issued in one of the
FAN member states, but you will now be able to use it in all other
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states of that union without (substantial) surcharges. This saves
you time and money for buying new SIM cards, topping them up
and all efforts involved. Though you will still need to activate a
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mobile data plan or package as you will do anyway, because the
per-MB base rate is mostly charged very high, no matter if used
locally or for roaming.
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Have in mind that this special advice is only valid for common
surcharge-free roaming zones like those of the EU/EEA or
Western Balkans, and only applies within each zone, not
between the two of them. There are more zones on other
continents, but they only refer to voice calls and SMS, not to
mobile internet use. Or they apply to roaming between two
states only and are mentioned in our local articles. A few
(national) providers offer more countries added to their
surcharge-free roaming area. This is done voluntarily for
competition and needs to be checked with every provider. It may
be a good option, but is still rare and often applies to a few
challenging roaming countries only, like the UK, USA, or
Switzerland.
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The plans below also cover Andorra, Faroe Islands, Isle of Man,
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Jersey, San Marino, Switzerland and the UK.
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