topic Data Roaming Charges Applied When Data Roaming Disabled in Account and services

Data Roaming Charges Applied When Data Roaming Disabled

nedged1 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:25:05 GMT

I have a longstanding phone contract with 3 which includes free Data Roaming in Go Roam countries. Up until now I have been billed fairly for any use outwith my contract. However on a recent trip to Morocco, not a Go Roam country I disabled Data Roaming on my iPhone before leaving the UK. But 3 have decided to charge me £12.50 for Out of Allowance Data Charges! I wasted half an hour on Chat trying to get an answer and requested details of the Data Charges I have been billed for including dates etc. All they did was send me a copy of my bill, which I had already checked and surprise, surprise no details of the data charges, only the £12.50 combined total which is incredible given I had Data Roaming disabled.

Anyone else been cheated like this?

Re: Data Roaming Charges Applied When Data Roaming Disabled

MichaelP — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:43:44 GMT

Hello @nedged1,

I completely understand that it must be very confusing to see charges that you didn't expect.

I'm going to send you a PM to put you in touch with some colleagues, who'll look into this further with you.

To view your private messages on the community, click on your avatar image in the top right of any community page, then "Messages".

Thanks,
Michael

Re: Data Roaming Charges Applied When Data Roaming Disabled

nedged1 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:15:59 GMT

Thank you for replying I have now had the charges refunded since nobody was able to detail what the individual data usages were! And considering Data Roaming was switched off on my iPhone, it’s hardly surprising!