[gkeeper]

Hi all. Interesting comments, but there is always hidden caveats when it comes to roaming in the EU. I was reading an article where in particular someone said they get incoming calls and outgoing calls within their home bundled package. (when roaming in the EU UK O2) After some reasearch it is not as straightforward as you may think.

The package is called O2 Travel.
1. You sign up to O2 Travel (Pay monthly).
2. You get free incoming and the outgoing calls are taken from your contract bundle up to 60 mins per session.
3. You Pay £1.99 for a days worth of Data.

a. The downside is you get charged a connection fee of £0.50 for every incoming or outgoing call, which could end up being very expensive on calls under 2 minutes or if you receive or make a lot of calls, the maths is simple 10 x 3 minute calls = £5.00 10x incoming 3 minute calls = £5.00. Total cost = £10.00 extra per day.
b. The Data is per day its "use it or lose it" and the allowance is only 15 MB per day, going over the allowance will cost you another £1.99 for another 15 MB.

Roaming outside of the EU on O2 has recently increased in price.

Example 1: making a call back from Turkey to the UK on your contract Sim £1.50 Per Minute, incoming £1.25 Per minute, SMS £.040 per text and Data is £6.00 per MB.

Example 2: making a call back from USA to the UK on your contract Sim £1.10 Per Minute, incoming £0.90 Per minute, SMS £.040 per text and Data is £6.00 per MB.

So all in all there are no free lunches, and i am sure all other networks in the EU will have their own caveats.