Three UK Expands Free Mobile Roaming to 11 New Destinations

Mobile operator Three UK has expanded the availability of their ‘Feel At Home‘ service (i.e. no extra charges while roaming around other countries) to a further 11 destinations including Chile, Colombia and Costa Rica among others. A total of 71 destinations are now covered.

The full list of new destinations includes Chile, Colombia and Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, Vietnam and Mayotte. Dave Dyson, CEO of Three UK, said, “My ambition is to free our customers and offer 100% free roaming worldwide, and we will continue to abolish unfair roaming charges until we achieve this … we have also committed to no changes to roaming on Three following Brexit.”

However it’s worth remembering that you can only roam at no extra cost up to the level of your domestic allowance and there remain some restrictions for 3G or 4G data usage. For example, on ‘Feel at Home’ in Europe any usage above 12GB (9GB on Pay as you Go) is subject to a surcharge of up to 0.78p/MB (slightly less in a few countries).

Likewise for ‘Feel At Home Around the World’ you can’t use more than 12GB of your data allowance (9GB on PAYG), while with all-you-can-eat texts you can send up to 5,000 texts and if you’ve got 3,000+ minutes included in your allowance then you can use up to 3,000 minutes max.