My way of looking at this would be:
- How often do you visit Australia? (for the sake of explaining my logic, I’ll go with once a year so what was £25 per visit is going to be £100, working on the theory you do 4 weeks)
- In addition to Australia, do you go anywhere else? Summer holidays to Turkey? You fly to Australia via Asia / Dubai etc?
If any of the above is correct, then depending on what you pay per month. Rather than take the hit of an additional £100 per trip. It might make more sense to speak to EE about moving to a tariff that has an inclusive extra you can select.
Personally, I’m on an all rounder plan. Before these changes, I had the Roam Futher/Extra which basically meant I had EU roaming as well a s 5 other countries included.
Worth it for me as `I travel frequently. Even with the old bolt on, I’ve never had to worry about racking up the £2,47 per days charges in Europe or pay the £25 when roaming in the States.
These changes for me actually make EE more appealing as the quite a few of the ROW1 countries tick the boxes for me. In addition, I’m going to Turkey for the first time in February (city break to Istanbul) and noticed that’s also included.
My point being, the monthly price between what you’re paying now for your package VS what you’d pay for a package that includes an inclusive extra might work out a lot less.
As an included extra, the changes to the roaming bundles are brilliant. If you’re planning to pay standard price then they’re absolutely not.
For Australia, if you’re basically in a position where it’s your only time you travel each year and you already get a great deal on your package so you don’t want to change it. I’d just buy a local sim whilst there rather than pay £100 for a 4 week trip.
