{"id":242,"date":"2014-07-03T14:18:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T14:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/?p=242"},"modified":"2014-07-16T11:30:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T11:30:23","slug":"o2-eu-data-roaming-2-for-unlimited-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"O2 EU data roaming: \u00a32 for &#8220;unlimited&#8221; internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite recently, O2 UK seem to have updated their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.o2.co.uk\/shop\/international\/using-phone-in-europe\" target=\"_blank\">European data roaming policy<\/a>\u00a0for both Pay &amp; Go and Pay Monthly customers who are on O2 Travel.<\/p>\n<p>It used to be \u00a31.99 for <del>15MB<\/del>\u00a025MB of data, but now it seems O2 are offering 50MB of data for Pay &amp; Go customers and, I quote: &#8220;no upper usage limit&#8221; for Pay Monthly customers.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately I was very surprised, &#8220;no upper usage limit&#8221;, how can that possibly be? It\u00a0almost sounds like unlimited internet for just \u00a32 a day whilst in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, however, since O2 does attach a rather large caveat to this offer: &#8220;Traffic management steps apply&#8221;. If you click further down into the Terms &amp; Conditions, there actually\u00a0<em>is<\/em> an upper usage limit of 50MB for streaming video and 100MB for general internet traffic. After you use up your allowance, you are slowed down to a literal crawl (looks to be 64kbps or similar speed), which is\u00a0practically useless.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that O2 are mis-advertising their &#8220;no upper usage limit&#8221; when in fact, it is 100MB. The last time I checked 100MB was an upper usage limit? Of course, they get round it by not entirely stopping the service but slowing it down to the point of unusability. I would prefer it if\u00a0O2 simply stated &#8220;100MB for \u00a32 a day, send a text message to get another 100MB&#8221; like previously, but instead once you&#8217;ve used up your allowance you have to wait until the next day to return to normal browsing speeds.<\/p>\n<p>Even better: Why can&#8217;t O2 just copy Vodafone and offer \u00a32 a day to make use of your own home allowance of GB&#8217;s\/minutes\/texts? To me this seems most reasonable. Even better still, since Telefonica owns both O2 and Movistar, abolish data roaming charges altogether? It&#8217;s going to happen anyway, why not just get a head start on the competition?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite recently, O2 UK seem to have updated their European data roaming policy\u00a0for both Pay &amp; Go and Pay Monthly customers who are on O2 Travel. It used to be \u00a31.99 for 15MB\u00a025MB of data, but now it seems O2 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/?p=242\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,39,12,34,38],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-data-roaming","tag-europe","tag-internet","tag-o2","tag-roaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastinternetblog.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}