I’m in Tunisia & have no service only WiFi in hotel 🤦‍♀️

[Chris_B]

@Nev6459  are you on contract or pay? Go? Have you tried restarting your device? If on contract did you text ROAMING to 150 to enable roaming on your account before you left the UK ?  

[Schockwave]

Hello @Nev6459 ,

Welcome to the community,

Are you on pay as you go or monthly contract?

If on monthly contract did you activate roaming on your account before going abroad?

Not necessary if on pay as you go, as it is already automatically activated.

Have you tried doing a manual search for a network rather than automatic?

If you are on a monthly contract you can ring customer service to get roaming activated by calling them on Skype for free, see my signature.

[bristolian]

Regardless of any billing add-on, 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.

On PAYG, this 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 such as Skype over WiFi.

[XRaySpeX]

@Nev6459 : Are you on contract or PAYG? Had you used that SIM for making calls or texts in UK before you left to go abroad?

If you are on contract, did you activate roaming on your EE a/c before you left UK by texting ROAMING to 150? Having a roaming billing add-on doesn't of itself activate roaming on your a/c. Having roaming activated on your EE a/c, not just on your device, is crucial to using your contract SIM abroad.

Often just rebooting the phone is the simple remedy. Also try selecting a network manually rather than auto.

Otherwise you need to call CS to get your roaming activated. Try calling CS on the Freephone no. in my sig. on Skype over WiFi. It should be free.