The return of EU roaming charges by UK MNOs is an unwelcome development for the country’s consumers and businesses, while also running counter to global trends. This represents a U-turn by the operators, which had all pledged at the start of 2021 that they would not reimpose roaming charges in the aftermath of Brexit where the UK finally left the EU at the end of 2020. Yet the roaming charge return was inevitable once the first operator, EE, broke ranks in June 2021 by announcing that charges would be reintroduced from January 2022 for new customers, as well as existing ones upgrading to a new contract not bound by the original zero roaming charge commitment. EE is levying a flat…