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EU mobile roaming regime (Roaming I–V): practitioner’s guide to 'roam like at home', fair use, surcharge derogations, wholesale caps, and BEREC Guidelines (to 2032)

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Practice notes

This Practice Note sets out guidance on the rules that govern mobile phone roaming in the EU. In particular, it examines the ‘roam like at home’ implementing regulation, under which roaming charges were abolished across the EU with effect from 15 June 2017. This Practice Note also considers the following legislation relevant to roaming:

Archived Regulation (EU) 717/2007 (Roaming I)
Archived Regulation (EU) 544/2009 (Roaming II)
Archived Regulation (EU) 531/2012 (Roaming III)
Regulation (EU) 2015/2120 (Roaming IV)
Regulation (EU) 2022/612 (Roaming V)

Roaming

Roaming refers to a mobile network subscriber’s ability to travel to another country outside the coverage of their home network and still make and receive calls, send and receive data, use the internet, and access other communication services while there. This is enabled by agreements between home communication network operators and operators in other countries, allowing users to roam on foreign networks. In return for roaming access, operators charge each other, and the home operator usually passes this surcharge on to the subscriber. Roaming—particularly for data connections—had historically resulted in the network...

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Purvi Parekh

Anakiya Consulting

Purvi heads up her own consultancy Anakiya Consulting, specialising on solutions in the communications sector. Previously Purvi headed up international telecoms teams at leading international law firms Olswang and DLA Piper. She works across telecoms, technology and digital work in mature and emerging markets. She has a strong focus in private and public sector procurement, outsourcing and infrastructure innovation. Her specific digital telecoms and technology experience spans all kind of network and platform, including mobile, fixed line and satellite. She has advised on some of the most innovative projects affecting these industries market today, including network sharing (active and passive, light and deep), MVNOs, M2M, mobile payments, convergence and 4G/LTE. She works on strategic policy issues, advising at a senior level on changes on mobile strategy, infrastructure and regulatory developments, including the European wide change proposed by the digital single market and...

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