Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana & Malawi to scrape roaming fees…A 16 year old tale

Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, and Botswana governments have agreed to scrap roaming charges for travelers. This is going to be a part of the SADC Roam Like Home initiative that was set up back in 2007.

For it to work, it involves network operators of different countries agreeing not to charge roaming fees that are higher than the network charges in the home country of a traveler. So if you cross the border you should still be able to call back home for the same length of time with the same amount of airtime that you spend on a call that long at home.

How does Roaming work?

Roaming is a service that allows you to access mobile services available to your home network in a foreign country. You can travel to a different country and maintain the same number for calls and SMS and purchase mobile plans from your home network.

Roaming is when you use your mobile phone while occasionally travelling outside the country where you live or have stable links i.e. you work or study there. So, as long as you spend more time at home than abroad, or you use your mobile phone more at home than abroad, you are considered to be roaming.

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