Simon

Cumbria

IT

So a total admission that they are using roaming charges (where there is effectively little competition) to cross subsidise the areas where there is competition.

Other than that, a load of whineing and misleading statement to try and disguise what they are doing. Not to put if too strongly, it should not cost significantly more to call from a mobile in the UK to a UK mobile roaming abroad than it would (in total) to call from the same mobile to a UK landline, call from a UK landline to a landline in the foreign country, and call from a landline there to a mobile. That fact that it does says one (or both) of two things : 1) the operators are making an unhealthy margin, and/or 2) they have built inefficient systems in which case we the users should not be paying for their ineptitude.