Europe is populated far more densely than the US and there is plenty of competition in individual markets (e.g. Germany), so I doubt that this will slow down competition.
What I really hope it will achieve is abolishment of roaming in any particular form – I have a German contract with German O2, currently stay in the UK and am usually logged in(?) to O2 UK’s network. Yet this is ‘roaming’ and forces me to pay more for calls, while paying less for texts (€0.1 per text by EU regulation rather than unregulated €0.19 at home).
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Europe is populated far more densely than the US and there is plenty of competition in individual markets (e.g. Germany), so I doubt that this will slow down competition.
What I really hope it will achieve is abolishment of roaming in any particular form – I have a German contract with German O2, currently stay in the UK and am usually logged in(?) to O2 UK’s network. Yet this is ‘roaming’ and forces me to pay more for calls, while paying less for texts (€0.1 per text by EU regulation rather than unregulated €0.19 at home).
> What I really hope it will achieve is abolishment of roaming in any particular form
I'd also like cross-EU number portability, I moved country a few years ago and had to change my mobile phone number, that was annoying.
If there wasn’t any roaming, you could simply keep your old contract?
Yes, but there may also be some sort of local operator with more interesting prices or offers.