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Paying for incoming texts from three when abroad.

Fuzulation — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:10:24 GMT

I am abroad for 2 months and have bought a local sim. Every time I switch on my old phone with my UK sim I received a text to say I’m being charged £2. I have not sent any texts or made any calls from this number or used any data so why am I being billed for this?

Re: Paying for incoming texts from three when abroad.

MZone — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 10:00:34 GMT

If you haven’t got data roaming switched off then your phone potentially uses small amounts of data in the background that would trigger the £2 a day go roam charge hence you received a text from 3 informing you of this. If you have an iPhone and data roaming is switched off and you are still getting charged the £2 a day roaming charge then see this thread here.

Re: Paying for incoming texts from three when abroad.

atommyk — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 08:31:43 GMT

If your roaming is however switched off you might be affected by the same issue as folk posting in this thread:

https://community.three.co.uk/t5/Network/Roaming-charges-whilst-data-roaming-turned-off/td-p/17979/emcs_t/S2h8ZW1haWx8dG9waWNfc3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ufExWSTk4TDlFVk0xV0hBfDI4NTk3fFNVQlNDUklQVElPTlN8aEs