Vodafone has introduced it is going to reintroduce roaming costs in Europe for UK cellular clients from January subsequent yr. It’s the most recent UK service to reintroduce the charges after the nation’s departure from the European Union, and it follows the same U-turn from EE in June. All main carriers within the nation previously said that they had no plans to introduce roaming charges in Europe after the Brexit vote.

The charges will apply to any Vodafone clients who signal as much as or change their contract from August eleventh, 2021, with the charges making use of from January sixth, 2022. Costs are depending on the particular plan, however most clients pays £2 ($2.77) a day to make use of their UK allowance of calls, texts, and knowledge in Europe, or £1 a day if entry is purchased in eight- or 15-day bundles.

Customers signed as much as Vodafone’s “Unlimited Data Xtra plan with 4 Xtra benefits” or “Limited Data Xtra plan with 4 Xtra benefits” pays no further charge to make use of their UK allowance in Europe. All UK Vodafone clients touring to the Republic of Ireland, an EU member state, is not going to need to pay any roaming charges no matter their contract. Full particulars of the brand new cost plans may be discovered right here.

Roaming costs have been abolished within the European Union on June fifteenth, 2017, however after the UK voted to depart the EU, it needed to renegotiate its commerce agreements with the bloc. These didn’t embrace free cellular roaming, permitting UK carriers to reintroduce charges in the event that they wished.