UK mobile customers will be better protected against unexpected roaming charges while using their phone abroad and at home under new Ofcom rules that have not yet come into force. Following Brexit, UK laws requiring operators to alert customers of roaming charges when they start roaming ceased to apply, although many operators have continued to

The survey showed 71pc of people say they wouldn’t even expect to pay for roaming charges

Lyca Mobile is one of the only operators to not have reintroduced EU roaming charges, helping to bring down costs for UK customers 

Customers who took out a mobile contract before the changes were announced will not be affected. 

Virgin Media O2 is the last remaining MNO yet to reintroduce charges

The network follows EE in bringing back roaming charges

Changes will come into effect in January 2022.

The network are also hiring over two thousand staff in their UK call centres as part of a new customer campaign

Analysts claim revenues will be heavily affected after ruling comes into force on June 15

Roaming charges will end by June 15 this year

Proposed time limits on surcharge-free roaming scrapped ahead of new plans to be introduced next year

The European Commission has proposed banning incoming call charges within the EU from July 2014

The proposal, which could see operator revenue drop by two per cent, has been welcomed by UK price comparison site uSwitch

Vote means from July 1 roaming charges will be capped at 24p per minute for calls, 7p per minute for texts and 58p per megabyte for data