EE no longer offers inclusive roaming to all of its pay-monthly or pay-as-you-go plans. Newer customers, in particular, will be stung by charges re-introduced since the UK left the EU.
However, if you sign up for either EE’s All-Rounder or Full Works plan, you’ll get the option to add on a Roam Abroad Pass, which gives you access to your calls, texts and data when travelling abroad.
If you’ve been with EE for a long time – as in your plan started before 7 July 2021 – you’ll still have EU roaming included in your monthly contract. However, if you’re a newer customer and took your contract out after 7 July 2021, you will have to pay a daily charge to use your EE phone or SIM plan when travelling in the EU.
If you have a tablet, laptop or mobile broadband contract with EE, the cut-off date is 18 August 2021. So if you’ve been a customer since before, then you won’t have to pay additional charges.
In order to access your minutes, texts and data allowance while travelling in the EU, EE has a daily charge of £2.29.
You don’t need to do anything to opt in for EU roaming with EE, and you’ll automatically be charged the daily roaming rate.
If you’re going to be away for more than 11 days and are planning to use your phone every day, it would be cheaper to get EE’s Roam Abroad Pass. You can add this as one of your Inclusive Extras if that’s part of your current plan, or add it as an add-on that you can cancel at any time.
Both options cost £25 a month and mean you won’t have to pay the daily £2.29 charge.
EE pay-as-you-go customers will have to pay additional charges to make calls, send texts or use their data while in the EE Europe zone.
If you have an active EE subscription, upon arrival at your destination, you’ll receive a text message from EE asking you to opt in to either of its roaming add-ons.
Roam like Home for 24 hours = £2.50 a day
Roam like Home for 7 days = £10 for 7 days
If you don’t want to opt in to either of these plans or you don’t have an active subscription, you’ll instead be charged EE’s standard roaming costs:
70p a minute
30p a text
£3 for 500MB - but you’ll need to buy a data add-on for this
EE no longer offers its Roam Further pass, which used to give customers access to their calls, texts and data allowance in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand.
That means that you’ll be charged per text and per minute for calls, and you’ll need to purchase a data add-on when you arrive.
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