All mobile operators benefit from EU 'roam like at home' rule in Spain ⋆

All mobile operators benefit from EU ‘roam like at home’ rule in Spain

Although operators were concerned that their mobile networks would come under severe strain when the new roaming legislation came into force on June 15, 2017, their fear hadn’t materialized. Find out more about roam-like home Spain below.

Spain‘s leading operators ended up benefiting from the introduction of new EU-wide ‘roam like home’ rules last summer, according to a report from communications regulator CNMC.

Although EU-wide data roaming rose 435 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2017 to over 84 million GB, the Spanish networks were able to cope with the high levels of seasonal incoming traffic.

Prices set by the European Union

As we say, operators, when managing their customer’s calls abroad, do so through agreements with the telcos of the country to which they travel. The rules of the “end of roaming of the European Union” set the maximum (wholesale) prices that operators could charge each other for making “travel” through their mobile networks in the EU, the MB, SMS or customer calls.

Prices (wholesalers) 54% cheaper in Spain roam like home Spain

In addition, if we continue diving in the Spanish case, we see, for example, that wholesale prices for data traffic fell by 54% compared to the previous summer (0.37 cents / minute in the IIIT 2017 vs. 0.81 cents / minute in the IIIT 2016).

In the case of voice calls, in Spain there were also significant decreases (you have it in this chart here): 2.95 cents IIIT-2017 vs. 2.53 euro cents III-2016.