• @[email protected]
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    548 months ago

    Unless you are dangerously close to a non-EU country and can’t reliably prevent your phone from connecting to its networks

    • @lemmylommy
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      358 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        48 months ago

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

        • @hoshikarakitaridia
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          78 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.

    • Tippon
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      98 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

      • @[email protected]
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        48 months ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            18 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.

        • Tippon
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          28 months ago

          The island is tiny, and only has about half a dozen houses on it. The visitors are there because it’s a nature reserve, so generally don’t want to be on their phones anyway. It’s not worth setting up a relay station over just telling everyone before they get there.

    • Martin
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      98 months ago

      Never thought of that. Scary though.

    • @[email protected]
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      38 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.