Do you know what your smartphone is doing?

Well do you? Which have issued an advisory against overseas smart phone usage, stating that you can run up huge bills unknowingly through data roaming.

Now at first, I thought, well, anyone with such a phone surely knows enough about it not to do anything so stupid as overseas data roaming, but then I did ponder after that that more and more phones have app functionality and not everyone is quite clever enough to realise what that actually means when you go abroad. (Especially when you have seemlesss applications such as GPS and push email that isn’t obviously “data usage”.)

The good news is that after July, there’s an EU wide limit in force for bills. Something which I think should generally be an option no matter where you are, as (I would suggest) noone really wants a sudden massive bill, which you could easily get in your home country depending on what you do, let alone overseas.

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