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But Boris Johnson has promised the UK 'won’t immediately send children up chimneys or pour raw sewage all over its beaches'.
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All four of the main UK mobile carriers have now announced plans to reintroduce roaming charges for customers traveling within Europe, following Brexit.
Due to the end of a post-Brexit grace period on 30 June, firms no longer have to send a warning text when consumers start roaming.
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EE will bring back roaming charges for new customers who use their phones in Europe.
EE has announced it will reintroduce roaming charges from January, despite saying just months ago it had no plans to do so after Brexit.
EE will charge customers for mobile usage in other European countries from next year, despite previously saying it had no plans to reintroduce them after Brexit.
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Under the trade deal brokered between the European Union and the UK, Britons will lose some benefits while travelling.
Since the Brexit vote, some of the UK's biggest mobile phone operators have revealed that they will be reintroducing roaming charges in the EU.
Some Brits will face EU roaming charges for the first time since 2017, as EE is the first carrier to break its promise that nothing would change after Brexit.
An influential UK consumer rights organization is calling on UK communications regulator Ofcom to reintroduce formal, compulsory protections for Brits who use their mobile phones within the European Union, claiming that the falling away of such rights following Brexit has led to widespread confusion and the return of post-vacation bill shock.
"The Regulation defines a harmonized legal and tariff framework for roaming on public mobile communication networks within ECOWAS Member States and will solve the problem of high cost of roaming services in the region through the elimination or reduction of call tariffs, SMS charges and data costs, among others."
Travellers from the UK lost almost £9m a week this summer due to roaming charges.
Even if the European Union and the United Kingdom conclude a highly ambitious partnership covering all areas agreed in the Political Declaration by the end of 2020, the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the EU acquis, the internal market and the Customs Union, at the end of the transition period will inevitably create barriers to trade and cross-border exchanges that do not exist today.
Most networks are reimposing the charges post-Brexit, after the EU abolished them.