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Comment on More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs
uzay@infosec.pub 7 months agoUnless you are dangerously close to a non-EU country and can’t reliably prevent your phone from connecting to its networks
themadcodger@kbin.earth 7 months ago
mundane@feddit.nu 7 months ago
Never thought of that. Scary though.
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
This time last year I stayed on Bardsey Island, off the Welsh Coast. There’s hardly any phone signal on the island, but they warned everyone to turn off roaming on their phones anyway. It turns out that because of the mountain on the island blocking the signal from the UK, lots of phones automatically connect to Irish providers, and cost more than people expect
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
It’s weird they wouldn’t work with a UK based telco to set up a relay station explicitly to prevent this.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Why prevent it, when you can just shrug your shoulders and rake in the money?
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
The telco likely doesnt make any extra from the roaming, they very likely pay it all out to the company the roaming took place on.
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
I’ve always been sent a text when I connect to the network of a different country. It happened immediately when I crossed over from France to Monaco, for example.
lemmylommy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
IMO they should have just made any roaming on non-EU-terms strictly opt-in. It’s madness that you can get billed ridiculous amounts of money just for being too close to a border or ship.
Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Originally it kinda made sense. Kinda hard to juggle through getting a deal with every single carrier everywhere
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 7 months ago
But it doesn’t.
If you don’t have a deal with the carrier, don’t automatically connect to it. That is so dumb, (and it also smells illegal to some degree) cause in some cases it can happen on accident, and paying for things you specifically don’t want is a really shakey basis in law.