topic Re: Worldwide roaming in Mobile Services

Worldwide roaming

Bev36 — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 14:21:02 GMT

My daughter is travelling in Japan, South Korea. Thailand, Indonesia and Australia. What is the cheapest way to give her data.roaming with ee? They are quoting £6+ per day which seems v expensive. Is it cheaper to just buy a sim in each country?

Re: Worldwide roaming

Kirigaya_Kazuto — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 14:32:17 GMT

Yes, buying a SIM card locally will be a lot cheaper in the long run

Re: Worldwide roaming

XRaySpeX — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 14:46:44 GMT

@Bev36 : Look up the EE roaming rates as set out in https://ee.co.uk/help/help-new/roaming-costs/ by country.

Re: Worldwide roaming

bristolian — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 15:43:54 GMT

The reply above mine, includes a link to the online roaming costs tool.

In pure monetary terms, use of a local SIM in each country will nearly always work out cheaper than using roaming facilities.

The benefit of roaming is that your UK number travels with you, and calls & texts use that number as you travel - with the costs added to your UK bill. Clearly that has less relevance for data use, although websites you visit and apps you use, will identify you as being a foreign user rather than a UK-based user.

Re: Worldwide roaming

Schockwave — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:10:21 GMT

@Bev36 , just to add, if there is wifi available and it is free, that is the best way to use data.