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Mobile giant EE has made an embarrassing u-turn on data roaming policy and have introduced standard speeds across the network.

As a TV show highlighted this week, the network was charging customers more for better browsing speeds on their premium plans.

The phone network was found to have deliberately slowed down international roaming speeds for those not on expensive tariffs.

Their policy came after EU regulations were introduced that ban mobile networks from charging more abroad for data allowance use.

EU roaming regulations have no impact on mobile data speeds, so EE remained in line with EU regulations.

Customers with their Max plans were able to get the faster speeds available abroad than customers on their cheaper plans.

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Everyone else would get “standard speeds” which can be slower than in the UK.

Channel 4 show Supershoppers tested speeds of various networks across Alicante, a city on the coast of Spain popular with British tourists.

On average Vodafone hit speeds of 82 megabits per second – in line with some of the fastest possible 4G speeds available in the UK.

O2 averaged 46mbps, while Three averaged 14mbps.

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But EE customers got just 2mbps, taking up to 35 minutes to download an app. EE said it's has now lifted their speed restrictions completely.

It said: “All of our customers will be able to enjoy the super fast speeds.”

In a statement issued on Sunday evening an EE spokeswoman said: “EU roaming regulations do not state anything about speeds. Before the EU roaming regulations launched in 2017, we updated all of our plans to include EU roaming.

"Since then, all of our customers have been able to achieve standard speeds when roaming in the EU, providing them a great experience when browsing, using social media and streaming standard definition video.



"Since we launched Roam Like Home in 2017, we have had measures in place for some of our plans to assess the impact that this unprecedented increase in roaming traffic would have on our network, while still delivering a great roaming experience.

"We’ve had plans in place to lift the speed limitations we’ve had in place ahead of this year’s summer holidays, so all of our customers will now be able to enjoy the superfast speeds supported by our roaming partners abroad.”