Brexit: Digital Single Market Debate
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Lord Addington
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(6 years, 6 months ago)
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Lord Ashton of Hyde
I think it would be mad to spell them out before we even start the negotiations.
Lord Addington (LD)
My Lords, to go from the macro to the micro, if we leave the EU, might we not be susceptible, as individuals, to roaming charges when we go to Europe? Is not the addition of, say, up to several hundred pounds on the phone bill of everyone who visits Europe something that might lead us to put on the line some compromise of our position regarding our new independence?
Lord Ashton of Hyde
The noble Lord is right that roaming charges are one of the main areas that we have to look at as part of the negotiations that particularly affect DCMS. That is absolutely on our radar and we understand the implications both ways. We understand that it is a fairly recent innovation not to have roaming charges within the EU: we completely understand that and it will form part of the negotiations.