How does Roaming work?

[Last updated: August 30, 2017]

The roaming or roaming is what you have to activate on your mobile phone if you are traveling abroad to receive or make calls, as long as the telephone connection is not lost in that country.

These types of calls tend to be very expensive so the best thing you can do when you travel is to talk to your phone company so that it can be activated and ask for the best offer, since today there are many options and you will find the ideal solution for you. .

Attentive to the conditions

It is very important that you be very careful and that you tie all the roaming points well, as they can offer you something that is not completely real and when you return you will have a bill of hundreds of euros for something that they told you would not cost you more than a couple of them.

Depending on the company, if you are in European territory you can pay almost a euro for a multimedia message or € 0.50 for a text message normal. If you are called by phone from your country of origin, the person who makes the call will pay the normal amount and you will pay the same, so do not answer calls that are not expressly necessary.

Internet connections

As for Internet connections, it is best to deactivate the data connection and leave only the Wifi, since depending on your company it can cost you between € 1 or € 2 every minute you connect to the Internet.

Almost all mobiles disable data traffic by default, so keep an eye on that, although given the boom that for some time you have been living with phones that offer all kinds of internet applications, there are several special packages for when you are roaming to be able to connect a certain time or with a certain download limit.

Upgrade: Roaming, after 10 years of struggle, has disappeared throughout the European Union, being June 15, 2017 the date of its end. The countries included are Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Countries Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom, Romania and Sweden.

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