Maybe the networks are going to react more positively to the EU's stance on roaming after all.
After Vodafone's Passport last year, here is the beginning of the ranks breaking ...
http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/Dispatcher?menui..._mobile_roaming
Quote:
Get 50 minutes and 50 texts FREE to use this summer in any of the countries below, if you buy Flext 25, Flext 35, Flext 25 + web 'n' walk or Flext 35 + web 'n' walk online in May or June.
This offer is available for new connections only.
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Free roaming including USA and Canada? Lightning strikes!
Ok, it's on post-paid, but clearly an experimental promotion like this stands a chance, especially when the other UK networks are already struggling to respond to T-mobile's launch of the Flext tariffs. I think the last sentence in the quote is just a bit too cynical though; if I'd signed up with them 3 weeks ago, I'd be lobbying very strongly to have this added.
Longer term, 50 minutes is not much, but note this is extra free minutes, not merely allowing inclusive use. I think T-mobile might have some difficulty now defending the joint position of the networks against the EU's initiatives. If they can't afford it, then what are they doing? But of course there could be an undertone of cynicism - perhaps they hope to buy off further changes and that this will be the full extent of any movement