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Do I need to have data roaming on in Ireland?

bigpat
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Arrived in Ireland a few days ago. Cant get ANY signal on my Google nexus 5 phone which is fairly new. Never had coverage problems here before and rest of family's phones (non 4g) are fine.
Do I need to switch data roaming back on? And will this lead to huge charges? Don't need 4g basic coverage would be fine. Can't get any useful info from EE - T-Mobile website. Finally managed to connect to some free WiFi and its taken me 15 mins to type this
Do I need to switch data roaming back on? And will this lead to huge charges? Don't need 4g basic coverage would be fine. Can't get any useful info from EE - T-Mobile website. Finally managed to connect to some free WiFi and its taken me 15 mins to type this

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Just been in Ireland for a week - it is classified as "abroad". Switched my data roaming off so that I wouldn't (accidentally of course !) get any large bills,
Sent a few texts - cost me £1.10.0 -
Ireland is 2 regions which part?
"3" republic is part of the included data.0 -
On EE it costs £3 per 100mb and bundles last 24 hours - the thing I like about this sytem is that you only pay for the budles you buy so never any risk of "bill shock" when you get home.0
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yangptangkipperbang wrote: »Just been in Ireland for a week - it is classified as "abroad". Switched my data roaming off so that I wouldn't (accidentally of course !) get any large bills,
Sent a few texts - cost me £1.10.0 -
getmore4less wrote: »Ireland is 2 regions which part?
"3" republic is part of the included data.
Yes I mean the Republic. So are you sure data is included? I'm surprised by that since I had a text message on arrival telling me about the call charges etc. Just haven't been able to connect to a network since then.0 -
Is your phone set up to work abroad? If it wasn't you would be able to connect to wifi but not use 3G/4G.
The cost of using it in Eire will be roughly similar to using it in any other European country. Generally data is not only not included but is charged at a significantly higher rate.0 -
keep your data roaming off in the Republic of Ireland or you will incur big fees.
There is a warning to that effect on the Nexus 5 when you turn Data roaming on
There are plenty of free wifi places
Bye the way, there is a mobile board at MSE;
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=14
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ballyblack wrote: »keep your data roaming off in the Republic of Ireland or you will incur big fees. .Now free from the incompetence of vodafail0
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Can't get any useful info from EE - T-Mobile
Poster appears to be on EE/tmobile not 3 !!0 -
Yes its T-Mobile which is EE. OK so I leave data roaming off but why can't I connect to 'normal' services? What setting would that be? Nexus 5 Android 4.4.
Really appreciate help so far.0
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