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How to active roaming in Pakistan

Badsha1 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:50:01 GMT

Please Answer me

Re: How to active roaming in Pakistan

bristolian — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:24:05 GMT

Your ability to get coverage abroad (which calls, texts & mobile data rely on) is dependent on roaming being activated - which allows your phone to connect to foreign networks.

Have you used your phone abroad previously, did you receive a welcome text message on first arrival abroad? These are good evidence of roaming being enabled if so. In these cases, manually cycling through all available local networks often resolves issues - toggling flight mode can have the same effect.

If not...On PAYG, roaming is auto-enabled once your phone is used in the UK first. On pay-monthly, this needs to be enabled manually - usually by texting ROAMING to 150 before leaving the UK. Did you do this?

If you are on pay-monthly and now find yourself abroad without having enabled roaming, your only recourse will be to contact CS to request it activated. You can either contact +44 7953 966150 from another working phone, or +44 800 9566000 using a web-calling app over WiFi.

Re: How to active roaming in Pakistan

XRaySpeX — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:37:46 GMT

You'll receive a Welcome text upon arrival at a country giving your roaming options.

If you are on contract, you may use unlimited calls & texts & 500 MB data per day in the EE ROW Zone 3, when you buy the Zone 3 Pass for £7.50 / day. Otherwise you will need to pay the charges or buy roaming add-ons as set out in https://ee.co.uk/help/mobile/roaming/roaming-costs/countries/pakistan.

If you are on contract, just remember to text ROAMING to 150 before leaving UK to ensure the roaming ability is enabled on your no.

If you are on PAYG, just make sure you had already used your PAYG SIM to make a call or text in the UK.