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Originally Posted by cmyden
First you would want to make sure your carrier's 'Easy Roam' or 'Roam Like Home' feature is disabled. (Telus calls it 'Easy Roam')....
Without disabling that, Canadian carriers will typically use any excuse to charge the daily $13 fee, the moment you transfer one byte of data while travelling or receive a phone call or text.
But it varies by provider. Telus claims if Easy Roam is activated, it won't be triggered with an incoming text.
With Rogers on the other hand, I've had the daily 'Roam Like Home' fee triggered while the phone was in airplane mode the entire time, seemingly due to incoming calls or texts.
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PREACH! On my last bill the ####suckers at Virgin Mobile charged me several extra days for "Roam Sweet Roam" at $13/day travel to the US... on days where
I had the roaming disabled and phone in airplane mode. I disputed the charges with customer service, because my detailed, itemized bill had absolutely no usage whatsoever on those days. No incoming calls/texts, no data usage whatsoever. I made the point: "
Look, if I actually connected to another provider's network, I would have had a few bytes worth of data used, just with apps doing small updates and geolocating, right? But there's literally nothing on these days. You guys can't even prove I had the phone turned on!"
Next time I travel I'm yanking the SIM card out and getting a cheap local one (or an eSIM).