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Of course they have an issue, because they're present in virtually all of the EU it's completely free money for them right now.

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Three in the UK clearly saw this coming and recently made roaming in several countries completely part of your monthly package

The countries are: Ireland, Australia, Italy, Austria, Hong Kong, Sweden and Denmark.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23896896

(This doesn't look to be symmetric, for some reason--if you're a Three customer in one of those countries I don't think you avoid roaming charges in the UK.)

Three customers in Italy had the no-extra-charge-when-roaming feature already 4-5 years ago actually. That was both for data and voice. http://www.tre.it/opzioni/estero/all-estero-come-a-casa EDIT: I see there was a bit of overhead actually. not quite the same tariff.

exactly my point, but I could have probably been more explicit!

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