How to activate or deactivate Roaming or data roaming? step by step guide

On vacation in another country? Knowing new frontiers is something that is in our DNA, we all dream of knowing many places and making the whole planet our home. For it, it is necessary to take several precautions before travelingwhich obviously includes enabling data roaminga service that will allow us to keep the mobile operating in any country in the world.

As you well know, Each country has a radio spectrum that is used by telephone companies to offer their different services.. This leads to agreements with the government of each nation, which means that in each one of them there are different telephone access points. Roaming is the service that allows you to connect your mobile with access points in other countries without having to buy a new line.

This incurs additional costs, but is extremely useful for keeping in touch with your loved ones once you land at your destination far from home. In this guide we will show you how to activate data roaming on your Smartphone Android, iOS, Windows Mobile or Blackberryas well as answer some questions that arise in this regard.

Steps to turn data roaming on or off

Previously, this was a problem for many users as the first cell phones activated it automatically when you left your coverage area. This did not necessarily imply leaving your country; with making a simple trip from one province to another they would be activated and would start charging more than necessary for each call you made.

Fortunately, smartphones allow you to turn this service on and off manuallyso that if you prefer to purchase a new line in the country you are visiting, you can do so perfectly.

There are two ways to do it:

• The first is by contacting your telephone company. Go to its official website and locate its customer service number to tell them that you are going to travel and want to have data roaming as the case may be.
• The second One way is to do it manually, which varies depending on the device you have. Below we show you the step-by-step process for the main operating systems of modern smartphones.

on Android

In Android it is very easy to activate them, for this you must follow the following instructions:

• You must first go to the “Settings” either “Setting” of the mobile and look for the option “Wireless Connections and Networks”. In it you can basically modify any aspect of your internet connection and telephone network.
• You will find four sections:
  • Wifi
  • Bluetooth
  • Data Usage
  • Plus
• By tapping on the last of these, you will be able to see many more options in the section.
• The next thing you should do is look for the option “Mobile networks”, which is the section dedicated to everything that has to do with your telephone service.
• The first two sections will beData Usage” and “Data roaming”.
• Check or uncheck the second of these to activate or deactivate Roaming as the case may be and you will have finished the process.

In case you have two telephone SIMs in your mobile and one of them offers more accessible rates, you can determine it as the main one by entering the option “Network Operators” found at the end of the “Mobile networks” which we just taught you how to enter earlier.

on iOS

To carry out this process on devices with the iOS operating system, be it any iPhone phone or even an iPad tablet, follow the following recommendations:

• You should first go to theSettings” which you can access from the main menu or by dragging your finger from the bottom up to expand the control center.
• Once in this section, you will find a series of options grouped according to their nature. The first ones correspond to the different mobile connections. In it you should look for the option “Mobile data” and touch.
• Within this section you will find three switches:
• Mobile data
• Activate 3G
• Data roaming
• The first and last of these are the ones that will allow you to control Roamingthey are generally on, so if you want to turn them off you just have to touch them both.

If you want to keep roaming active, you can scroll down to find the option “Data Usage” and determine which applications you want to keep active with data usage, so you can save on your bill when you return to your country.

On Windows 10 Mobile

On these devices you must do the following:

• Go directly to the “Setting”, which you can access by swiping down from the status bar at the top of the screen, and look for the option “Network and Wireless” and then “Mobile Network and SIM” where you will find a series of options.
• Locate “Data Roaming Options” and in it you can turn it on or off as the case may be.

Again we recommend that turn off mobile data in case you want to disable Roaming as Windows Phone devices have had various problems in this regardgenerating multiple demands from its users.

To do this you must enter again in the section “Mobile network and SIM” but this time you are going to deactivate the switch of “Data Connection” to turn off your internet connection.

On Blackberry phones

On Blackberry devices you must do the following:

• Get in “Setting” and look for the option “Network connections”
• Within this you must locate “Mobile Network” since in this section a series of options will appear.
• The one that interests us is the “Roaming data service” which has a switch that we can turn this option on or off.

Is it still necessary to activate the Roaming service when traveling in Europe?

If you travel from a Latin American country to a European country you will have to continue to be careful with this issue. But this will no longer be a problem if you own a mobile from a country of the European Union. Things have been made easier for the Spaniards since last June 2017when the borders between countries were eliminated as far as telephony is concerned.

The end of roaming in Europe represents an enormous comfort for Spanish people, especially for those who live on the border and had to be careful not to connect to another country’s network. Although you have to be careful since not all EU countries are part of this agreement.

Andorra and United Kingdomwhich separated from Europe with Brexit, still have these rates, so when you travel to these countries you should be careful about this.

Does this apply to contract and prepaid customers alike?

In general, the answer is yes., but prepaid customers who do not have a data bonus in their rates will have to pay a surcharge of €7 for each extra GB consumed. It should also be noted that you can only use the data included in your rate, so if you run out of megabytes and want to use more, you must pay the extra data at a rate of €1 per megabyte.

If you have a mega data ratethose with plans of 20GB or more, you will not have to worry either since you will be able to use all this data with total freedom, you simply have to take into account that when these end and you need more, the extra megabytes will have to be paid with the aforementioned surcharge.

As for calls and messages there is no problem, you will be able to spend all your rate while roaming without problems. Although there is a limitation; If in the last 4 months you have used your plan abroad more than in your country, you will receive a warning that if the trend continues for the next 15 days, you will have to pay a surcharge of 24 to 26 euro cents.

this last does not apply if you justify with your telephone company that you are going on Erasmus or you will live for a season in another country for work or any other reason for a period of one year or more. Although in this case the ideal would be to buy a line from a local telephone company to avoid entanglements.