Comment on More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs

• lemmylommy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Originally it kinda made sense. Kinda hard to juggle through getting a deal with every single carrier everywhere

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    • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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• themadcodger@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  shakes fist at Andorra

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• mundane@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Never thought of that. Scary though.

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• Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨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

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s weird they wouldn’t work with a UK based telco to set up a relay station explicitly to prevent this.

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why prevent it, when you can just shrug your shoulders and rake in the money?

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      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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