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How to avoid ridiculous phone roaming bills on your summer holiday
The Independent
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7/21/2025
Ridiculous phone roaming bills and how to avoid themSource: The Independent
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there you are chatting away perfectly happily to your pals at home or maybe you're checking out a
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map using lots of data now if you are in part of the european union maybe one of the beautiful
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greek islands tarifa in the far south of spain then you're probably thinking well this is fine
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i've got a deal with my mobile company and i'm not paying a fortune for this but you could be
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hooked on to a different country's mobile system and that could be very expensive i've heard from
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people in corfu who have ended up paying albanian rates if you're on the lovely greek island of
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kos maybe turkey is going to have your mobile business and even in tarifa southernmost town
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in spain you could find that you are accidentally inadvertently spending money with morocco so
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please the thing to do with your mobile phone is go to settings turn roaming off once you get to
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your destination you can turn it turn on the settings choose a network which is a local one
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and take off automatic selection of networks that should see you all right then all you need to worry
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