E.u. Interfering Again.

[Kevink]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23098623

When will this foreign Eurocrats learn that we are BRITISH and like being ripped off?

[VHG]

Well we are certainly being "ripped off" by the cost of being in the EU.

The EU "civil service" is a huge, inefficient, badly run, corrupt organization that is doing its best to ruin Europe.

[Gromit]

A country like the UK would not have been able to impose any restrictions on the phone companies alone. It is by being part of a super block that we are able to stop them ripping us off.

It may have a costly civil service, but at least it gets things done.

[ToraToraTora]

yes perhaps they could get some more things done now, like getting the accounts signed off after 15 years!

[Kathyan]

I thought it was 18 years tora? What I would like to know is why we are charged for receiving a call?

[bazwillrun]

Well if i can now get cheaper roaming , its a small price to pay to be part of a superstate/empire and be dictated to by an outside corrupt organisation, and have them make laws i have to abide by, and if they get the chance, tell me how much tax i I have to pay etc etc etc

[Old_Geezer]

I'm unsure I understand the details of this. An internatinal call is bound to cost more than a national one. There are two national networks providing a service plus an international one connecting them. Not to mention all the data that needs to pass to get it all right. I am concerned that if the cost of this is artificially held down the companies will look elsewhere to subsidise it. i.e. the cost of national calls and texts. Maybe not immediately, but eventually.

[Old_Geezer]

You are charged for receiveing a call whilst abroad Kathyan because surely you don't expoect the caller to dial what they think is a national number and find later they are paying for an international call that you caused. And the service provider is not a charity to cover the costs of your globe trotting. Ergo it's down to you to cover the additional call cost of your travelling.

[Kathyan]

But don't all mobile numbers begin with 07? Therefore they would know it's a mobile and not a national number.

[Kathyan]

And, also I don't take my mobile when I go 'globe trotting' (otherwise known as going on holiday!) ;)

[Old_Geezer]

It is irrelevant the caller might know it is a mobile, they expect to pay for a national call. So you, as called party, pay for the difference to forward the call internationally.

[Old_Geezer]

Here I am assuming you are from the UK of course, and not the US. They have their own system there where folk can not tell what type of phone they are calling, which messes up any fair system of not charging the called party every time.

[jake-the-peg]

Difference between the EU and our civil service is they look out for the interests of us consumers!

Like the Governments investigation into payday lenders

They kept quiet about the fact that they got a lot of money in donations from them and the EU is making them investigate the lenders' business practices!

Generally if it's something that's in our interests the government tend to pretend it's their initiative