topic Re: Gifting data to family abroad in Mobile Data

Gifting data to family abroad

Nikki56 — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:57:41 GMT

Hi, hoping to get some advice here.

I have my mum’s phone on my account and I pay for it each month for her. She gets unlimited data however we are aware that when she and my dad go abroad in March, this will be limited to 50 GB due to fair usage policy. My question is, when she has used her 50 gb allowance, can I gift her more data from my line? Or will she have to purchase more data?
If they were only going away for a couple of weeks it wouldn’t be anything to think about but they are going travelling for nine weeks in a motorhome and will be using the data for their maps, to keep in touch and watch TV/stream music/listen to books, so it might get a bit tight for them on the data front. It’s a holiday of a lifetime for them, and I don’t want them to worry about getting cut off so trying to get some answers for them. Thanks in advance 🙂

Re: Gifting data to family abroad

XRaySpeX — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 15:09:10 GMT

The 50 GB FUP is per billing month. So over 9 weeks she'll get 2 or 3 of them.

Re: Gifting data to family abroad

Rach_H — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 15:11:34 GMT

Hi @Nikki56,

Welcome back to the Community!

Whereabouts is it your mother will be travelling?

Rach

Re: Gifting data to family abroad

Nikki56 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:41:25 GMT

They’re going to Spain and then travelling on to Portugal 🙂

Re: Gifting data to family abroad

Rach_H — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:02:24 GMT

That sounds amazing @Nikki56! I'm sure they'll have an amazing time 😀

As @XRaySpeX has said, if they have the Roam Abroad pass then this will refresh monthly, meaning they'll get 50GB on each billing date, but any gifted data would be added to this amount, so wouldn't be able to be used.

Rach