Size matters .....
Vodafone has become the second mobile phone operator to restart roaming charges for its customers. The telecoms giant said after Brexit that although it could now re-introduce roaming charges it would not do so. Something must have changed.
One thing that certainly has changed is that the phone giants were made to stop roaming charges by the European Commission. They hated it but customers loved it and it was just one other benefit of the EU, like cheap airfares; that no one remembered.
The EC could force the phone giants, and many other multi-nationals and tech giants, to be nice because the EU is so large. It can use that weight against even the biggest companies, for the benefit of consumers.
The British government either can’t do that or won’t. Take your pick.
Since all the telecom companies promised not to use Brexit as an excuse to row back on roaming charges, you might think the Government might want to hold them to their word. It might not be a Brexit benefit but it would stop it making things worse.
But the Government doesn’t seem to care.