New football sponsors

[cornafean]

Armaghniac - I think the EU clamped down on that a few years ago and that calls from anywhere on the island of Ireland are charged at the same rate - not 'roaming'

They clamped down on some of the worst excesses of roaming charges but the unpleasant fact remains that if I go to the game in Crossmaglen on Sunday I will be charged very high roaming charges on all calls made and received because by phone account is in the Republic.

[armaghniac]

Well actually you'll be safe enough in Cross' with a freestate phone as none of the northern providers have service there, so oddly enough it is the Armagh supporters from the north of the country who will be gouged.

The EU have introduced some initiatives across the union, but there have been no official attempts to regulate mobile tariffs throughout Ireland. While southern users going North have had some mitigation of their charges, it is not so good in the other direction and you still get gouged on texts and completely and utterly ripped off on any sort of mobile internet. Vodafone are complicit in this and the GAA are doing business with them when cross border GAA games are an important source of unjust profit for Vodafone.

[Gabriel_Hurl]

Armaghniac - I think the EU clamped down on that a few years ago and that calls from anywhere on the island of Ireland are charged at the same rate - not 'roaming'

They clamped down on some of the worst excesses of roaming charges but the unpleasant fact remains that if I go to the game in Crossmaglen on Sunday I will be charged very high roaming charges on all calls made and received because by phone account is in the Republic.

leave the phone at home then

[Gnevin]

All the same I think that RTE is a strange sponsor. I also think that Vodafone, a profoundly partitionist organisation, make a funny bedfellow for the GAA. Every time a 6 county team play in Croke Pk, Vodafone make vast inflated profits from price gouging of GAA supporters. 

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