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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That is if you stay within one country. I still get some insane charges if I text someone 60 kilometers away because it's international.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It still expensive to use your phone abroad that hasn't improved

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

It did actually. I don't pay for sending a message or calling my neighbour if I go to the next country or Bulgaria. The EU made it law that roaming is free.

What still costs money is if you send a message in the NL to the NL if you have a Belgian number for example, which makes it so that you still have to get a new number each time you move countries. Or rather the bigger pain is calling my mom who lives in a different member state, that I can't really do without incurring insane charges.