The Mobile Network Operator, Three, has announced recently that it is scrapping roaming charges for all British travellers visiting America. It has already ceased charging in Australia, Italy, Austria, Sweden, Ireland and Denmark as well as the city of Hong Kong and will include Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Macau in this extension of the scheme.
We know, at Holsure, that many of our clients are shocked by the cost of their mobile phone bills on returning from their holidays. Recent research suggests that Britons pay £256 million each year on roaming charges with average bills of around £120 following overseas trips.
The EU has capped roaming charges at 24.5p for voice calls, 8.1p for texts and 46p per Mb for data usage and in 2014 these charges will fall even further.
But the costs of calls outside Europe can be high. O2 charge £1.10 per minute from America to Britain and it can cost 90p per minute to receive a call, texts cost 40p each and data usage a massive £6 per Mb.
We hope to see this change soon with four of the UK's major Operators (EE, Three, Vodafone and Virgin) signing an agreement with the Government supporting a total scrapping of roaming charges by 2016.
Watch this space.
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