Talk:European Union/@comment-31216203-20190823205033/@comment-24682153-20190824132211

Yepp. Your observations are right. Many streaming offers (esp. video or TV streaming, not so much audio streaming) is still geo-blocked. That means that you will run into difficulties abroad. The EU has implemented an obligation that your "home offer" remains still un-blocked in a different EU country. Some UK providers have difficulties with zero-rating some of these offers - so for UK viewers this may come to an end with an hard Brexit.

On the other side, local offers of the host country abroad often remain unaccessable. That's because these geo-restrictions are often based on your IP address. When you are roaming in a foreign country, all traffic is run through your home country on an IP address of your home provider. That's why you are often locked out from local offers in the host country.

Having said this, there is an easy bypass to circumvent these obstacles. You simply have to use a VPN. For video it should be reasonable fast what only commercial VPNs normally offer. If you have an VPN server in your home country, you can easily access your home video offer all over the world. If you have a VPN server in the local country where you are roaming, you can get all local offers through your roaming connection.