Talk:Belgium/@comment-25229736-20170403213126/@comment-24682153-20170403215342

You are right and wrong. Unfortunately, only some providers let foreigners on their networks nowadays: the three majors network operators and some resellers.

We had to take off some brands like Aldi; Scarlet, Carrefour. Because you need a Belgium e-ID or a Belgian bank account to verfiy idendity. There is no way to do it offline. Aldi actually states that their (prepaid) SIM is for Belgian residents only. Of course, they disobey European law, that EU citizens must not be discriminated. I'm still not convinced about Vectrone mobile. They register online, but don't verify your ID. This seems to be against the new law in Belgian too and there was a report on VTM TV about this.

What the new EU roaming regulations are concerned: The EU actually does everything to NOT let you roam permanently. It will still be banned to use a SIM card from a cheap country and use it permanenty roaming in an expensive country like Belgium. There will be some FUPs in place: volume restrictions and possibly a time restriction too. The question is how feasible these FUPs are. We'll keep on monitoring this situation very closely from June 2017 as users in many of more expensive EU countries are quite interested.