Vodafone is to start charging £2 a day in roaming fees for new and existing customers in the EU from next year.
The charges will apply to anyone using their monthly allowance within 49 destinations.
Mobile firms were previously banned from charging extra fees to use your UK allowance while holidaying in the EU, but this no longer applies now the Brexit transition is over.
Vodafone says its new roaming fees will kick in from January 6, 2022, and will apply to anyone who signs up to a new contract or renews their existing one from August 11, 2021.
Customers will be able to slash roaming costs to £1 a day by buying multi-day passes. An eight-day pass will cost £8, while a 15-day pass will cost £15.
Those who sign up to Vodafone’s pricier "4 Xtra" tariffs won’t be affected by the changes as these deals include roaming.
And if you’re an existing Vodafone customer, you won’t face the new charges until you upgrade your contract.
Voxi, which is owned by Vodafone, said its customers aren't affected by today's announcement.
It comes after EE announced similar changes to its roaming fees back in June following Brexit.
O2 and Three have also updated their “fair use” policies which cap the amount of your UK data allowance you can use in Europe.
O2 has a roaming limit of 25GB, with any data used over that charged at £3.50 per gigabyte.
Three has cut its fair-use data limit from 20GB a month to 12GB when in Europe and it charges £3 per gigabyte above that.
Ahmed Essam, Vodafone CEO in the UK, said: "The majority of our customers are not regular roamers.
"And the reality is that including roaming – a service that costs us money to provide – in every plan means more than half of our customers are paying for something that they don’t use.
"So we think it’s fairer to give people more choice over what they pay for, either opting into a price plan that includes free roaming, or paying for roaming only when they roam."
Full list of 49 places where roaming charges will apply
Here is the full list of 49 places where Vodafone will charge a roaming fee from January 2022:
- Aland Islands
- Austria
- Azores
- Balearic Islands
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Canary Islands
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Faroe Islands
- Finland
- France (incl Corsica)
- French Guiana
- Germany
- Gibraltar
- Greece
- Guadeloupe
- Guernsey
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Italy
- Jersey
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Madeira
- Malta
- Martinique
- Mayotte
- Monaco
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Reunion
- Romania
- San Marino
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- St. Barthelemy
- St. Martin
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Vatican City
