Know what your phone does abroad
Land in another country knowing what your phone is doing.
Abroad, your phone borrows a local network. That is roaming, and your own company charges for it at a rate of its own.
Wi-Fi at the hotel costs nothing extra. The borrowed network usually does.
Key points
- Roaming is your phone borrowing a network in another country
- Turning data roaming off leaves Wi-Fi working as usual
What to remember
- Wi-Fi keeps working with roaming turned off.
- Roaming is the phone network. Wi-Fi is not.
Try this
Find Data roaming in your own settings tonight. Knowing where the switch lives takes a minute.
Practice: Know what your phone does abroad. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.