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Today Is The Last Day Anyone Travelling In Europe Will Ever Pay For Roaming Charges

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The time has finally come; this week, specifically tomorrow, roaming charges all over Europe will be a thing of yesteryear. But with terms like Roam Like at Home appearing all over social media to promote the initiative, what does it all mean exactly?

Wherever you’re travelling in the EU, you’ll pay domestic prices for phone-calls, SMS and mobile internet. And that’s amazing.

So irrespective of of where in Europe you’re travelling to, any phone calls you make, text messages you send, or megabytes of data you consume will be covered in your national bundle. So if you have unlimited calls and SMS in Malta, you’ll automatically also have that wherever you go in Europe.

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If you have unlimited mobile data (or extremely cheap rates) at home, your operator might apply some safeguard limit on the amount of roaming  you can make, just to ensure fair use (read: so that you don’t end up using a million gigabytes of data in a weekend). Don’t worry though; you’ll be informed in advance if such a limit would apply to you, and even alerted when you reach the limit. And beyond that limit, you could continue using data roaming for an extra small fee; less than 10 cents per GB, which is 25 times less than before!

If you stay in another EU country longer than your home country over a few months, your operator might contact you and ask you to pay more, which is more than fair.

This amazing incentive which is finally seeing the light of day was one of the top priorities for the Maltese 2017 EU Parliamentary Council Presidency, and the EU agreement to such a steep drop in wholesale roaming prices came back in February 2017. Maipetra Kumpula-Natri was the EU lawmaker who steered the law on behalf of the European Parliament, and she had celebrated the decision in a tweet a few months ago. “The decision is the final step in a process that started 10 years ago,” Digital Minister Emmanuel Mallia had said. “From summer, Roam Like at Home is now a reality.”

For more information on this new era in roaming, check out the European Commission’s official page on the matter.

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Lovin Malta's Head of Content, Dave has been in journalism for the better half of the last decade. Prefers Instagram, but has been known to doomscroll on TikTok. Loves chicken, women's clothes and Kanye West (most of the time).

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