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By *abio OP Man
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
good news....
international roaming charges became illegal in the EU today.... it "should" cost the same anywhere in the EU....
and the bad news......
it may only last 18 months...... if we leave the single market that is one of the things that will have to be negoiated in those blooming "discussions".....
oh well... take advantage of it whilst you can!!!!
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By *andS66Couple
over a year ago
Derby |
And the other side of the coin is that also reported was that everyone's standard mobile costs will go up to pay for it. Still, that's only fair.
So now we know why 16 Million voted remain.
Although, tbh, mobile phone charges being the same across the EU was a big part of the positive side of the remain campaign. |
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"And the other side of the coin is that also reported was that everyone's standard mobile costs will go up to pay for it. Still, that's only fair.
So now we know why 16 Million voted remain.
Although, tbh, mobile phone charges being the same across the EU was a big part of the positive side of the remain campaign."
Amazing how the Remain campaign thought a silly little trinket like EU phone roaming charges could persuade people one way or the other. Frankly I couldn't care less about it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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this is clearly ace and very important .... it'll save me money on my communication overheads when i'm working .... plus i can stay in touch with my family more  |
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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago
Cambridge |
"A point of note is that it has taken the EU "several" years to get this agreement. "
So it's crazy to think that some people expect us to be full extricated from the EU with a good deal, in less than 2 years. Look at domestic legislation such as allowing businesses and charities to chose their water suppliers rather than being geographically tied to one supplier. I think that took 4 years from the legislation being passed to the changes actually being made. It shows the complexity of making legislative changes and most people are underestimating the scale of the challenge when it comes to brexit. |
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By *obka3Couple
over a year ago
bournemouth |
"this is clearly ace and very important .... it'll save me money on my communication overheads when i'm working .... plus i can stay in touch with my family more "
Its cost me £1.50 a day for several years to access my contract prices while abroad, dont think many will benefit that much from this change especially if they put up all prices to compensate, of course if its work related then its an allowable expense anyway |
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By *ercuryMan
over a year ago
Grantham |
"A point of note is that it has taken the EU "several" years to get this agreement.
So it's crazy to think that some people expect us to be full extricated from the EU with a good deal, in less than 2 years. Look at domestic legislation such as allowing businesses and charities to chose their water suppliers rather than being geographically tied to one supplier. I think that took 4 years from the legislation being passed to the changes actually being made. It shows the complexity of making legislative changes and most people are underestimating the scale of the challenge when it comes to brexit."
Exactly. Several years to do a phone deal, nine years to do an EU-Canada trade deal....getting us out will take a decade at least. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"But what they don't tell you is that you're data limit is capped at around half you're normal allowence
They will get you one way or another  "
Got a text from EE this morning. Clearly stated that my full plan applies in 48 countries. It isn't an EU deal as such....though they have had a big hand in it (probably in slowing it down). The arrangement is between dozens of phone providers. It is a commercial decision as most smart folk just got an additional sim when travelling abroad and companies lost out. |
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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago
Bristol East |
Yes, just reading this in the Independent advice to travellers about a No Deal Brexit:
"At present UK travellers benefit from free roaming across the European Union. The government says: “After Brexit, the guarantee of free mobile phone roaming throughout the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway will end.
“Check with your phone operator to find out about any roaming charges you might get after 31 October 2019.”
"Users are protected from mobile data charges above £45. “Once you reach £45, you need to opt in to spend more so that you can continue using the internet while you’re abroad. Your phone operator will tell how you can do this,” says the government.
"Some mobile phone firms, notably Three, have said they will not reintroduce charges."
Prepare to be shafted, folks.
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By *mmabluTV/TS
over a year ago
upton wirral |
Roaming charges are a minor point and it is up to the government to cap charges and stop the companies ripping us off.
Anyway going on holiday and using your mobile a lot is very sad indeed |
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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago
Bristol East |
"Roaming charges are a minor point and it is up to the government to cap charges and stop the companies ripping us off.
Anyway going on holiday and using your mobile a lot is very sad indeed"
Yes, imagine trying to navigate in a country you have never visited before. Who needs it, eh?
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By *ostafunMan
over a year ago
near ipswich |
"Roaming charges are a minor point and it is up to the government to cap charges and stop the companies ripping us off.
Anyway going on holiday and using your mobile a lot is very sad indeed
Yes, imagine trying to navigate in a country you have never visited before. Who needs it, eh?
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What do you think people did before mobiles not go abroad? |
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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago
Bristol East |
"Roaming charges are a minor point and it is up to the government to cap charges and stop the companies ripping us off.
Anyway going on holiday and using your mobile a lot is very sad indeed
Yes, imagine trying to navigate in a country you have never visited before. Who needs it, eh?
What do you think people did before mobiles not go abroad? "
Kinda sums up Brexit and the turning-back-the-clock mindset.
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By *ostafunMan
over a year ago
near ipswich |
"Roaming charges are a minor point and it is up to the government to cap charges and stop the companies ripping us off.
Anyway going on holiday and using your mobile a lot is very sad indeed
Yes, imagine trying to navigate in a country you have never visited before. Who needs it, eh?
What do you think people did before mobiles not go abroad?
Kinda sums up Brexit and the turning-back-the-clock mindset.
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It might do you a bit of good not to have a mobile while abroad you could even talk to locals and enjoy the culture instead of being on your phone all the time.  |
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By *ony 2016Man
over a year ago
Huddersfield /derby cinemas |
Why should roaming charges effect those who want us to leave , ?? Surely they will be showing their true , full patriotism and support for Brittish business and our economy by holidaying in Scarborough , Skeggy , Brighton , Llandudno , St.Andrews Torquay , Blackpool etc...... |
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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago
Bristol East |
Yaaay, let's re-erect all the barriers we spent 50 years tearing down!
Overnight.
On Nov 1.
I'm sure everyone will love it.
I'm sure everyone will pull their union underpants over their hand and sing "Rule Britannia".
Yaaay, three cheers for Brexit!
Three cheers for taking us back to the 1970s.
People will love you for it, they really will.
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They will also say thank you for saving our country from fascism.
Thank god we still have our democracy. Freedom of speech.
And thank you for saving our Army. Navy. Air force.
Thank you for saving our judicial system From becoming a police state. |
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By *ony 2016Man
over a year ago
Huddersfield /derby cinemas |
Let's hope those taking the tablets are still getting them after Brexit , the leavers own yellow hammer report suggests there may be a problem , let's hope this is something else that the leave leaders have got wrong |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Let's hope those taking the tablets are still getting them after Brexit , the leavers own yellow hammer report suggests there may be a problem , let's hope this is something else that the leave leaders have got wrong "
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It was wrote by remainers, collusioner Hammond and the rest of the treasonous bunch of cohorts in the civil service |
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"They will also say thank you for saving our country from fascism.
Thank god we still have our democracy. Freedom of speech.
And thank you for saving our Army. Navy. Air force.
Thank you for saving our judicial system From becoming a police state. "
As a member country, it's still about democracy. Our elected representatives decide what changes we wish to pursue. If we vote in people who want inappropriate things for citizens or maybe just selectively like democratic principles according to their own whim, we create our own problem that our sovereign parliament and the electorate can deal with. All those mysterious fantasy plans don't occur without consensual involvement |
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By *ony 2016Man
over a year ago
Huddersfield /derby cinemas |
"Let's hope those taking the tablets are still getting them after Brexit , the leavers own yellow hammer report suggests there may be a problem , let's hope this is something else that the leave leaders have got wrong .
It was wrote by remainers, collusioner Hammond and the rest of the treasonous bunch of cohorts in the civil service "
. That is what the leavers originally told us ,,, you must have missed the bit where they said it was their own report |
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By *ony 2016Man
over a year ago
Huddersfield /derby cinemas |
"I am still taking my medication. The pills go down quite easily. But the bullshit I find is quite hard to swallow.  "
. If people hadn't swallowed the bullshit the country would have voted remain |
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You are ever so lucky, to be missing all this wind and rain we are having at the moment in the uk.
Guiana Millure. I have big feet, and I have had my adams apple surgically removed. Plus the 11 eu. We will do your bidding judges.
That found that Bo JO was guilty of causing M.P's frustration, In them being able to carry out their parliamentary duties.
M.P's are causing frustration, to the people who elected the
I know the next few words may seem, and sound somewhat harsh. But they are true.
Collaborating, conspiring. With other countries. To remove their own elected government, And leader is called. !
Betrayal. Disloyalty. Treachery. Sedition. Treason.
Punishment for said crimes.
Life in imprisonment.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Friend works for 02 and what ever happens nothing will change. It's popular with customers so no plans to change the rules. EE and Vodafone saying the same, it's business after all. |
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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago
Bristol East |
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I know the next few words may seem, and sound somewhat harsh. But they are true.
Collaborating, conspiring. With other countries. To remove their own elected government, And leader is called. !
Betrayal. Disloyalty. Treachery. Sedition. Treason.
Punishment for said crimes.
Life in imprisonment.
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Perhaps you should study the Enabling Act. It sounds right up your street.
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"Friend works for 02 and what ever happens nothing will change. It's popular with customers so no plans to change the rules. EE and Vodafone saying the same, it's business after all."
Is your friend working high enough in o2 to actually know what decisions are being made because if they aren't they are unlikely to have much more idea than the general public. |
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I know the next few words may seem, and sound somewhat harsh. But they are true.
Collaborating, conspiring. With other countries. To remove their own elected government, And leader is called. !
Betrayal. Disloyalty. Treachery. Sedition. Treason.
Punishment for said crimes.
Life in imprisonment.
Perhaps you should study the Enabling Act. It sounds right up your street.
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You mean the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 ? or the Abolition of Parliament Act as it is referred to.
P.S.this could be the get out of jail free card for Boris and the irony is a Labour Government passes it. |
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By *mmabluTV/TS
over a year ago
upton wirral |
"Roaming charges are a minor point and it is up to the government to cap charges and stop the companies ripping us off.
Anyway going on holiday and using your mobile a lot is very sad indeed
Yes, imagine trying to navigate in a country you have never visited before. Who needs it, eh?
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Managed for years without smart phones,you buy a map.I do not have a smart phone and will never have one I hate them so anti social |
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"Roaming charges are a minor point and it is up to the government to cap charges and stop the companies ripping us off.
Anyway going on holiday and using your mobile a lot is very sad indeed
Yes, imagine trying to navigate in a country you have never visited before. Who needs it, eh?
Managed for years without smart phones,you buy a map.I do not have a smart phone and will never have one I hate them so anti social"
I use my Smart Phone when abroad for Sat Nav. I guess I could buy a map but why the hell should I go back in time just because the best part of 17.4m we conned? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Roaming charges are a minor point and it is up to the government to cap charges and stop the companies ripping us off.
Anyway going on holiday and using your mobile a lot is very sad indeed
Yes, imagine trying to navigate in a country you have never visited before. Who needs it, eh?
Managed for years without smart phones,you buy a map.I do not have a smart phone and will never have one I hate them so anti social"
Is binning smart phones and going back to paper maps one of the "brexit benefits"? |
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"Roaming charges are a minor point and it is up to the government to cap charges and stop the companies ripping us off.
Anyway going on holiday and using your mobile a lot is very sad indeed
Yes, imagine trying to navigate in a country you have never visited before. Who needs it, eh?
Managed for years without smart phones,you buy a map.I do not have a smart phone and will never have one I hate them so anti social
Is binning smart phones and going back to paper maps one of the "brexit benefits"?"
Brexit restores us to 1973, we're going back to red phone boxes and bakelite phones with rotary dials. Smart phones? Not even mobile phones! |
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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago
Bristol East |
"Roaming charges are a minor point and it is up to the government to cap charges and stop the companies ripping us off.
Anyway going on holiday and using your mobile a lot is very sad indeed
Yes, imagine trying to navigate in a country you have never visited before. Who needs it, eh?
Managed for years without smart phones,you buy a map.I do not have a smart phone and will never have one I hate them so anti social"
I guess you've never woken up pissed in a foreign land, wondering where you are and reached for your phone to find out.
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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago
Bristol East |
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I know the next few words may seem, and sound somewhat harsh. But they are true.
Collaborating, conspiring. With other countries. To remove their own elected government, And leader is called. !
Betrayal. Disloyalty. Treachery. Sedition. Treason.
Punishment for said crimes.
Life in imprisonment.
Perhaps you should study the Enabling Act. It sounds right up your street.
You mean the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 ? or the Abolition of Parliament Act as it is referred to.
P.S.this could be the get out of jail free card for Boris and the irony is a Labour Government passes it."
No, I was thinking more of The Enabling Act (Ermächtigungsgesetz) of 1933 that gave the German Cabinet power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag and the Reichsrat.
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"Alternatively you could just download the map before you go for offline use.
or buy a satnav
Oh ! The extra cost 
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A satnav would cost me more than EU membership and I would see the benefits for a week or two each year.
Why should I be forced into buying a Sat Nav because a bunch of poorly educated elderly people got conned? |
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"Alternatively you could just download the map before you go for offline use.
or buy a satnav
Oh ! The extra cost
A satnav would cost me more than EU membership and I would see the benefits for a week or two each year.
Why should I be forced into buying a Sat Nav because a bunch of poorly educated elderly people got conned?"
even more Lol |
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"Alternatively you could just download the map before you go for offline use.
or buy a satnav
Oh ! The extra cost
A satnav would cost me more than EU membership and I would see the benefits for a week or two each year.
Why should I be forced into buying a Sat Nav because a bunch of poorly educated elderly people got conned?
even more Lol "
Don't you agree? |
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"Alternatively you could just download the map before you go for offline use.
or buy a satnav
Oh ! The extra cost
A satnav would cost me more than EU membership and I would see the benefits for a week or two each year.
Why should I be forced into buying a Sat Nav because a bunch of poorly educated elderly people got conned?
even more Lol
Don't you agree?"
No |
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"Alternatively you could just download the map before you go for offline use.
or buy a satnav
Oh ! The extra cost
A satnav would cost me more than EU membership and I would see the benefits for a week or two each year.
Why should I be forced into buying a Sat Nav because a bunch of poorly educated elderly people got conned?
even more Lol
Don't you agree?
No"
Sat Nav with European maps definitely costs more than the £20 it costs the average leave voter a year in EU membership.
The poorly educated comment has definitely been proved. |
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"Alternatively you could just download the map before you go for offline use.
or buy a satnav
Oh ! The extra cost
A satnav would cost me more than EU membership and I would see the benefits for a week or two each year.
Why should I be forced into buying a Sat Nav because a bunch of poorly educated elderly people got conned?
even more Lol
Don't you agree?
No
Sat Nav with European maps definitely costs more than the £20 it costs the average leave voter a year in EU membership.
The poorly educated comment has definitely been proved."
free if you download the maps to your smartphone ...
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By *ostafunMan
over a year ago
near ipswich |
"Alternatively you could just download the map before you go for offline use.
or buy a satnav
Oh ! The extra cost
A satnav would cost me more than EU membership and I would see the benefits for a week or two each year.
Why should I be forced into buying a Sat Nav because a bunch of poorly educated elderly people got conned?
even more Lol
Don't you agree?
No
Sat Nav with European maps definitely costs more than the £20 it costs the average leave voter a year in EU membership.
The poorly educated comment has definitely been proved.
free if you download the maps to your smartphone ...
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you cant say that you're poorly educated and should not know that. |
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"Alternatively you could just download the map before you go for offline use.
or buy a satnav
Oh ! The extra cost
A satnav would cost me more than EU membership and I would see the benefits for a week or two each year.
Why should I be forced into buying a Sat Nav because a bunch of poorly educated elderly people got conned?
even more Lol
Don't you agree?
No
Sat Nav with European maps definitely costs more than the £20 it costs the average leave voter a year in EU membership.
The poorly educated comment has definitely been proved.
free if you download the maps to your smartphone ...
you cant say that you're poorly educated and should not know that. "
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"Alternatively you could just download the map before you go for offline use.
or buy a satnav
Oh ! The extra cost
A satnav would cost me more than EU membership and I would see the benefits for a week or two each year.
Why should I be forced into buying a Sat Nav because a bunch of poorly educated elderly people got conned?
even more Lol
Don't you agree?
No
Sat Nav with European maps definitely costs more than the £20 it costs the average leave voter a year in EU membership.
The poorly educated comment has definitely been proved.
free if you download the maps to your smartphone ...
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I responded to a comment about the extra cost of buying a satnav.
The download of maps to a phone is no good for live traffic. Do keep up! |
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"Alternatively you could just download the map before you go for offline use.
or buy a satnav
Oh ! The extra cost
A satnav would cost me more than EU membership and I would see the benefits for a week or two each year.
Why should I be forced into buying a Sat Nav because a bunch of poorly educated elderly people got conned?
even more Lol
Don't you agree?
No
Sat Nav with European maps definitely costs more than the £20 it costs the average leave voter a year in EU membership.
The poorly educated comment has definitely been proved.
free if you download the maps to your smartphone ...
I responded to a comment about the extra cost of buying a satnav.
The download of maps to a phone is no good for live traffic. Do keep up!"
Ok |
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By *obka3Couple
over a year ago
bournemouth |
"Alternatively you could just download the map before you go for offline use.
or buy a satnav
Oh ! The extra cost
A satnav would cost me more than EU membership and I would see the benefits for a week or two each year.
Why should I be forced into buying a Sat Nav because a bunch of poorly educated elderly people got conned?
even more Lol
Don't you agree?
No
Sat Nav with European maps definitely costs more than the £20 it costs the average leave voter a year in EU membership.
The poorly educated comment has definitely been proved."
Do you now the educational level of all 17.4 million then ? Of course having a degree doesnt make you clever it just means you can pass an exam, which is far from being the same thing. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Alternatively you could just download the map before you go for offline use.
or buy a satnav
Oh ! The extra cost
A satnav would cost me more than EU membership and I would see the benefits for a week or two each year.
Why should I be forced into buying a Sat Nav because a bunch of poorly educated elderly people got conned?
even more Lol
Don't you agree?
No
Sat Nav with European maps definitely costs more than the £20 it costs the average leave voter a year in EU membership.
The poorly educated comment has definitely been proved.
Do you now the educational level of all 17.4 million then ? Of course having a degree doesnt make you clever it just means you can pass an exam, which is far from being the same thing."
Having a degree means you're very clever in that subject actually BUT being clever even in many aspects doesn't mean you've
automatically got a lot of common sense. |
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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago
Bristol East |
"Yes, it looks like there will be roaming charges if there is a no deal brexit. "
I can just imagine Kev and Stacey from Essex, after queuing for hours to get into Alicante, sat on the transfer bus and wondering why their phones have ceased working before they've even got to Benidorm.
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