Who's in Violation of new EU roaming rules?

[EllasDevil]

Originally Posted by SMS from VF-GR

ΜΕ ΤΟ PASSPORT ΜΙΛΑΤΕ ΑΠΟ ΕΞΩΤΕΡΙΚΟ ΣΑΝ ΝΑ ΕΙΣΤΕ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΜΟΝΟ ΜΕ 1€ ΕΠΙΠΛΕΟΝ ΑΝΑ ΚΛΗΣΗ. ΕΝΑΛΛΑΚΤΙΚΑ ΑΠΟ 29/8/07 ΜΙΛΑΤΕ ΜΟΝΟ ΜΕ 0,58€ ΜΕ ΕΝΑ ΤΗΛΕΦΩΝΟ ΣΤΟ 13830

This is a sms I recieved from Vodafone Greece a couple of days ago, it says:

With 'Passport' you can call from abroad as if you are in Greece with only 1€ added per call. Alternatively from 29/8/2007 speak for only 0,58€ with one call to 13830 (Vodafone Customer Care).

I might give them a call to see what it's all about.

[fedeprovenza]

Passport is an european tariff created by Vodafone to call from abroad with the same own national tariff with 1 euro added. It's not bad even if it's very expensive to call only few minutes

[maccoy]

Originally Posted by fedeprovenza

I'd like to see the new french tariffs after EU roaming rules

http://www.arcep.fr/index.php?id=9369
I think that some tariffs are not compliant with Eurotariff (the maximum amount should be 58,6 and 28,7 cents, but some operators decided to ask 59 and 29 cents a minute).

[fedeprovenza]

Great Transatel!! Only 46 cent/minute. Very good.

[andy]

Originally Posted by Motel75

I keep hearing about this EU "name and shame" website showing compliance around menber states. However, search as I might, I have been unable to find it, and the URL is not given in any news reports I've seen. Anyone know it?

I suspect it may have been a previous version of the page I linked, though the American article was only a day earlier than my view of the EU page

If you looked at copies of the ERG info I saw, you'd be surprised anyone sent stuff in on time.

[Motel75]

Originally Posted by andy

I suspect it may have been a previous version of the page I linked, though the American article was only a day earlier than my view of the EU page

If you looked at copies of the ERG info I saw, you'd be surprised anyone sent stuff in on time.

Yep, many thanks. You already posted it, but when I looked at it earlier it wasn't working for some reason (for several days), but it seems to be fine now. Just in case anyone missed it, it's: http://ec.europa.eu/information_soci...k/index_en.htm

[andy]

On Wednesday the ERG sent out a second release of some guidelines. These are also available on their website until September 5. It contains such bureaucratic masterpieces as this:

Charges in currencies other than the euro

The relevant exchange rate for charges in currencies other than the Euro for
the first 12 months is the one quoted in the Official Journal for 30 June 20071
(and for following years on anniversaries of that date).

The charge limits for the Eurotariff and the wholesale average charge should
be calculated to the maximum number of decimal places permitted by the
official exchange rate. This sets the maximum that can be charged in the
national currency. Providers may wish in practice to quote charges in whole
numbers of currency units, especially at the retail level, although this practice
is not compulsory. In this case, the numbers should be rounded down.
Rounding up of these numbers to above the level of the relevant cap is not
permitted under any circumstances.

- which basically says that for instance a UK network might charge me 35p or 35.47p, but not 36p, or whatever the actual numbers happen to be.

And this is nearly a month after the deadline for the networks sending in the tariffs ...