Most people do not even know about the existence of Roaming, but today we tell you that this is in charge of communication between two operators to give you a connection or a signal, but when it is active rates may increase, which we will not like very much.
Here we will explain the distribution of the rates according to the operators, showing you the 5 most important operators in Spain . What we are going to tell you is that not all of them have the same rates and one may be economically more feasible than another.
We will also teach you those tricks you will need to use if you are one of those people who are enemies of excessive spending. The more we save, the more we can enjoy our trips.
Index:
What is roaming and what is this service for your operator?
The word Roaming is the English translation of Roaming , whose word we can see is very common on our phones , since it is widely used in the telecommunications area for indicate that the wireless device has left the network coverage assigned as the primary.
Well, this concept can be specified a bit. In Mobile Telephony, is used to indicate the possibility for customers to use a different network when they leave the determined range, this occurs more frequently when they have to leave the country. The network identifier in this case is the SIM card , which is responsible for communication between different operators.
You can also see this mode (Roaming), on some Wifi networks , which means that the client can move to any other wireless network. In this case, the way to make the identification is through a user and personal password, which must be shared by different networks.
How much does it cost to have service while traveling on my mobile operator?
We show you how to find out the cost of your service with each of the most important telephone companies in the country:
Movistar
If we are Movistar customers and we want to travel, we will have to take into account that the rates increase from the moment Roaming is activated on our device. To check these rates we must enter the Movistar page .
Here we can find the country where we want to travel and select the type of service we use (contract or prepaid). When we click on “Search”, a box will appear showing us what we must pay additionally to activate this service in the indicated country.
Yoigo
Yoigo’s rates are a bit different than Movistar, and are organized as follows:
Roaming rates for Internet coverage
The rates for the EU and associated countries is 0 euros / national rate. Such a fee will not charge us even half a euro for the roaming service , so we can enjoy many of these services within this range without paying anything else.
More explicitly, we can say that if we travel to any country, within the European Union, Yoigo will only charge us for the consumption of our navigation , just as if we were in Spain, and do not know will assign us an additional cost.
Yoigo divides countries by zones. The countries that belong to Zone 1 are the following:
Germany; Slovenia; Malt; Austria; Spain; Norway; Belgium; Greece; Netherlands; Bulgaria; Hungary; Poland; Cyprus; Ireland; Luxembourg; Croatia; Iceland; Czech Republic; Denmark; Italy; Romania; Estonia; Vatican City; Sweden; Slovakia; Latvia; France (including Martinique Island, Guadeloupe, Saint Martin and French Guyana); United Kingdom (including Gibraltar); Portugal (including Madeira and Azores); Liechtenstein; Lithuania; Finland
While the rates for the rest of the world have a cost of 10.89 euros / MB . If the country we have in mind is not within the list shown above, we will have to know that there if we will have an additional cost, so Yoigo identifies the rest of the world as Zone 2.
Roaming rates for call and text message coverage
Like Yoigo Internet browsing, it considers that all calls and messages received within countries that are located within Zone 1, will have no additional cost , while If we do them, they will.
For calls made, the following are considered:
If the countries we are going to visit are within zone 1, will have the same rate as that used within the country (Spain). While if they are within Zone 2, it will have a cost. 2.54 euro / minutes .
This also applies to sending messages, as follows:
Countries within Zone 1 will not have any increase in their rate, while countries that are located within Zone 2, will cost € 0.36 for each message . This is also true for the sending of multimedia messages (SMS).
We can check more rates, through the following link .
Jazztel
The Jazztel operator offers the following rates for those who wish to travel or leave their country where they reside. The first thing to know is that all countries that are within Zone 1 are not assigned any additional cost to their rate .
While the countries of Zone 2 will have an additional cost of 7 euros for every 100 MB consumed, and for the standard contracts covering the countries of Zone 2 and Zone 3 a cost of 12.10 euros for each MB.
To review in more detail the rates for each country or for each service visit the next page .
Orange
For Orange, roaming data consumption is distributed in Go Europe, Mobile Internet, Contract or Card, Everywhere . Go Europe is the type of Roaming established for the countries of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, whose cost per data consumption is 1 euro per 100 MB.
If we go to the type of Mobile Internet Roaming, will cost € 12.1 / 1 MB, which this type of roaming covers all countries in the world. For the Contract or card, which also covers all countries in the world, has a cost of € 6.05 / 500 KB.
Finally roaming Everywhere, covering countries such as Russia, Andorra, Switzerland, United States, Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Chile, Morocco, Japan and China, has a cost of € 7/100 MB .
For more information, visit the page .
Vodafone
For now Vodafone offers a roaming service for people who are going to travel to the United States where the fares have the same cost as the national . This rate is known as the Rate for European Union countries, where you must pay € 1/200 MB.
We can also enjoy other rates such as The World Travel Rate and Rate Vodafone World . Where the first has a cost of € 15/200 MB , whose countries involved within this range are those belonging to the Zone 2 list, and in other cases the same rate is makes a charge of € 15/20 MB.
The second Rate we show has three types, one that has a cost of € 6.05 / 1 MB , where it only covers Zone 2. The second with the same cost that covers Zone 3 and the last one where you must pay € 18.15 / 1 MB that covers Zone 4 .
To find more information we must visit the official site .
What advice can I use to spend less while using my rate? of the country?
As we have already seen, the costs of the rates can increase markedly when we use our phone with the consumption of active data. For this reason we bring you some tips that you should use to avoid these rates:
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The operators charge for the data consumption, but if we do not consume the data they will not charge us anything, so we must deactivate the data consumption and look for a Wi-Fi network where we can navigate and Communicate at no additional cost.
Let’s look for open Wi-Fi networks
Many countries have Wifi networks open to all audiences which are completely free, so we recommend using an application known as Free Wifi Zone which lets you know which networks are open and to what distance you can get them, plus it allows you to connect to those networks automatically.
This application can be found available for both Android and iOS .
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To culminate with these tips it is highly recommended to use applications such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram to establish communication with other people, because they do not necessarily need data consumption, since they can be used through a Wifi network.
Do I need to manually activate Roaming or do it automatically? And if I don’t want it?
Roaming is a function that is predestined in most devices, so we can always see it activated automatically , but this can be deactivated manually , as well as it can happen that we want to activate it and the only way to do it is manual.
Configuration and settings
To avoid high data consumption, we can configure our phone with a limit , so that the consumption is normalized and does not exceed more than we are willing to pay.
For this we go to “Settings ” and look for “Use of data” a warning will appear which we click on “Accept” strong > and limit as we want our consumption to be. As we saw in the notice, the data connection or consumption of them will be disabled just by exceeding that limit to prevent higher consumption.
Activate and deactivate service
This is the best solution in most cases, so if we want to deactivate the service we go to the mobile and look for “Settings”, then select “Wireless connections and networks / mobile networks ” and uncheck the boxes where it says “ Mobile data ”and“ Data roaming ”.
