Tesco Mobile UK Extends Free EU Roaming Again to 2026
Mobile operator Tesco Mobile has once again extended their Home From Home (HFH) EU roaming offer for another year, until 2026. Customers can thus continue to tap into their UK minutes, texts and data (mobile broadband) allowances, at no extra cost, when travelling around 48 destinations in the EU and beyond.
The move isn’t surprising as the provider is a virtual operator (MVNO) on O2’s (Virgin Media) network, which has long opted to retain free EU roaming. But Tesco Mobile goes a bit further and doesn’t appear to apply a strict cap on data when roaming around the EU, although they do still have a somewhat ambiguous Fair Usage Policy (FUP).
A study of 1,000 adults across the UK, commissioned by Tesco Mobile, found that staying connected whilst travelling is crucial to families. Respondents revealed it’s important to have access to online maps / directions (53%), network access (52%) and the ability to search for local activities and restaurant ideas (57%).
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Jonathan Taylor, CEO of Tesco Mobile, said:
“As well as benefiting from great savings and frozen prices, we’re delighted to confirm that customers on a Clubcard Prices deal (including both new & mid-contract customers) will now also enjoy EU roaming for no extra cost for the length of their minimum contract period. This extension to 2026 and its introduction to the Clubcard Price proposition is a testament to our commitment to providing exceptional value and convenience to our customers.”
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I will stick with Smarty, the O2 network is not that great around here.
I do laugh at the Tesco’s mobile phone advert, making out that it is Tesco that runs the network and that it is a supermarket that allows people to receive a signal in some place in the middle of know where. Strange that O2 can do that, but not get a signal around here that is decent.
This is a good move.
I had to change mobile providers recently. I didn’t even consider any provider as an option which doesn’t offer free EU roaming.
Same here, because we are traveling to EU once/twice a year. I think EE found this hard way recently and started including EU roaming in their offers also. Not to say Three is doing something similar giving people days of roaming in their offers, but Three is not something I will step in again 😉
I will stick with Lebara. Much cheaper than Tesco mobile. Signal from 02 is attrocious , constantly says good 4g but congestion on network means nothing loads! Lebaras Vodafone signal no issues at all with free EU roaming and 100 international minutes included
Are they still planning on having no caps on EU roaming data? this makes it seem worthwhile to me, since O2 works reasonably well at home. Not record breaking gigabit speeds but decent. I travel a lot some for work, some for holidays and work won’t pay for roaming.
In O2 postpaid limit is 25GB. Being for a month in EU in August I used 19GB mostly by uploading photos to my Nextcloud instance. If you need more than 25GB think about buying local SIM and USB modem or a 4/5G router.
Mine offer 30gb limit per month which is plenty as there’s an abundance of free WiFi literally everywhere, I’ve never even worried about data ever , it’s a non issue