Comment on More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months agoThis 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 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.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Why prevent it, when you can just shrug your shoulders and rake in the money?
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.