I checked today and Switzerland is NO LONGER on the list of countries
included in roaming for some plans not just pay as you goInstead it is
back to the 1.99 a day pool There is not trace in news or announcements
of when these changes were made
I keep reading this logic "they make money on payg customers abroad but
not pay monthly" and it doesn't make sense. How much difference is there
truly between a contract user and a payg bundle user, once abroad? there
are many people on the 2nd year ...
Wow catching up with this thread after 3 days has been informative. The
tone of the O2 communication around this continues to surprise me.
Clearly they think their throttling is at a much higher quality level
than it is. It's almost as if they wanted...
I was in Switzerland France and Italy early June. Before the EU law
changed, so still on the 1.99 a day O2 Travel. So this was not
"protective limitation due to people going bonkers" and it predates the
switch. Though perhaps they were preparing... I...
The main thing that is unsure is whether the throttling to that level is
deliberate, or if there is some configuration producing unexpected
overthrottling. Because making it totally embarrassingly unusable cannot
have been the goal, surely.