Talk:Euro4/@comment-209.204.163.20-20150815132643/@comment-24682153-20150816164814

Yes, that's true. Generally, European providers charge high for overseas calls and roaming too. Calling overseas from a roaming network is especially expensive. This applies to calling out as well as being called (= incoming roaming or passive roaming).

While the EU roaming charges will come down in the next years, the overseas charges are not regulated and will probably never be. Some operators have begun to lower some foreign call rates to out-of-Europe, but only made out of their home network. It's a different story, if you call on roaming overseas. Internatl. and roaming rates are so extremely comprehensive, that normally we don't list them on this WIKI.

Being called is often cheaper on your home (e.g. US) plan. For calls outside of Europe (more exactly the EU/EEA + Switzerland zone) you should use VoIP (or a call back service), as this will always be the cheaper option (as long as you have a decent data rate).

This SIM card is not featured for calls out of the roaming zone. It's for calls '''within the EU/EEA. '''Regular roaming packages on most other SIM plans (like Euro1-3 or 5) only cover calls "home" (meaning to the issuing country of the SIM) and sometimes within the roaming country. This SIM involves one of the first plans on the market to discount all calls within the EU/EEA + Switzerland roaming zone, which is already a huge step ahead. With the lowering of roaming caps, we'll see more offers in the next months for the EU area, but not for calls out-of this area.