Talk:European Union/@comment-91.152.195.161-20170708072808/@comment-3564598-20170714180143

The main thing that annoys me now, is that with the EU fair usage issue comes the fact that you might not be able to treat a SIM as long-term anymore. For example, I've been keeping a 3 Austria SIM active until now, partly because I thought their EU fair use policy originally looked pretty reasonable when they first put up their "Roaming IV" page (2.2 GB per €10 isn't completely "roam like home", but it's a fair price, and they take my US credit cards for top-up, unlike 3 UK). Then they updated it a couple of times, then they updated their tariffs (As long as I don't ask them to change it, I get to keep my old Nimm3 tariff with the FUP instead of the new tariffs, right?), and now they apparently reserve the right to request proof of residence in Austria if they detect more than 50% usage outside Austria in a 4-month period, so I stopped roaming on it and switched to roaming on an EE SIM I got for UK use before 15-June that I don't care about keeping.

The other part is because I got a really easy to remember phone number that I've grown a little attached to. But I guess if my future travels to Europe don't involve Austria often enough then I should just give up on keeping it. Alternatively, if usage matters more than time, then I can always make sure to transit Vienna when I visit Europe and watch streaming video over cellular while waiting for my onward flight to accumulate usage on 3.