Turning off international data on your mobile

paulfoel

Off to Ireland soon. Planning to pay £5 for an international bundle to cover calls etc but I certainly dont want to be using data at international rates.

Can you ask your provider (mines Orange) to disable this but still allow calls/texts etc?

redux

you could just edit the access points to make them not valid, e.g. orange.x.x

on the other hand, some data use can be useful, for example if you use a service like Fishtext in lieu of roaming sms rates

paulfoel

redux wrote: »

you could just edit the access points to make them not valid, e.g. orange.x.x

on the other hand, some data use can be useful, for example if you use a service like Fishtext in lieu of roaming sms rates

Good idea. How much data would I use with fishtext though?

emeraldbugle

I just make sure that if i accidently use the internet, it asks for WiFi, rather than connecting. On mine (LG) I change the profile from 'pay monthly' to 'Wifi'.

redux

paulfoel wrote: »

Good idea. How much data would I use with fishtext though?

it seems to use about 1k per message

if it's a smartphone, particularly an iPhone, make sure there aren't applications that will use internet without you realising, and don't use for example Google Maps as that can get through a megabyte or two reasonably quickly

paulfoel

redux wrote: »

it seems to use about 1k per message

if it's a smartphone, particularly an iPhone, make sure there aren't applications that will use internet without you realising, and don't use for example Google Maps as that can get through a megabyte or two reasonably quickly

aye. iphone it is....

robt_2

paulfoel wrote: »

aye. iphone it is....

Well in that case in Settings-->General-->Network just turn off data roaming?

gjchester

paulfoel wrote: »

aye. iphone it is....

Doesn't the iphone have a slider that defaults to roaming data off, and warns you in no uncertain terms it will be expensive if you choose to turn data on?

paulfoel

gjchester wrote: »

Doesn't the iphone have a slider that defaults to roaming data off, and warns you in no uncertain terms it will be expensive if you choose to turn data on?

Dont think so.... ???

robt_2

It does

I have told you where to find it