Data roaming is a smartphone feature that allows the device to make phone calls, send texts and use wireless data even when outside of the network’s coverage area. When enabled, data roaming allows ...

Whether it’s to flex on Instagram, assure your mum you haven’t been kidnapped, or just to check work emails (booo!), most of ...

A family says it was wrongly billed $13,470 for using data overseas. A family on vacation overseas racked up thousands of dollars in data roaming fees despite setting their phones to airplane mode, ...

Using the mobile internet on your smartphone, tablet or laptop while travelling abroad is far too expensive, our readers say. When ZDNet surveyed its readers around the world in March, 80 percent said ...

If you travel abroad frequently, you’ve probably wondered how to cut back on bill shock. We’ve all been there: you have a great vacation, get back home, and your next postpaid bill drops. Except, it’s ...

When travelling overseas, phone bills can get expensive quite quickly. This is not only due to international call rates, but also to data roaming, which smartphones are now becoming reliant on. Here's ...

Travelling is all about the sights, the food, and of course flexing on social media that you’re on a holiday. But when it ...

When using your iPhone abroad, you will have to connect to local networks if you want to access the Internet, known as data roaming. The network displayed in the upper-left corner of the screen will ...

People surveyed about data-roaming charges have described the fees as "extortionate", "robbery" and "pathological price gouging". These are just three of hundreds of comments written in response to a ...

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Brexit brought an end to the guarantee of free roaming for UK residents who visit countries inside the EU - although some providers still offer free services up to a certain point for travellers in ...