Are mobile roaming charges on way back?

BRITONS travelling in Europe could face a return to mobile roaming charges in the event of a No Deal Brexit.

Under EU rules, mobile phone firms have been banned since 2017 from charging customers extra fees if they use their allocated allowance of calls, texts and data on the continent.

However, a draft ‘statutory instrument’, part of a raft of No Deal preparations, means that from March 29, this may not continue. In a note with the legislation the Government admits consumer groups lobbied hard for a new scheme to keep current arrangements.

But ‘after careful consideration, the Government decided not to adopt this proposal’. Shadow culture secretary Tom Watson said the Government had ‘caved’ in to the ‘lobbying might of telecoms companies.