[Last Updated: August 30, 2017]
Roaming or roaming is what you have to activate on your mobile phone if you are going to travel abroad to be able to receive or make calls, as long as the telephone connection is not lost in that country.
These types of calls tend to be very expensive so the best thing you can do when you travel is to talk to your telephone company to activate it and ask for the best offer, since today there are many options and you will find the ideal solution for you. .
Attentive to the conditions
It is very important that you be very careful and that you leave all the roaming points well tied, since they can offer you something that is not real at all and when you return you will have a bill of hundreds of euros for something that they told you would not cost you more than a couple of them.
Depending on the company, if you are in European territory you can pay almost one euro for a multimedia message or € 0.50 for a normal text message . If they call you by phone from your country of origin, the person making the call will pay the normal amount and you will pay the same, so do not answer calls that are not expressly necessary.
Internet connections
As for Internet connections, it is best to deactivate the data connection and leave only the Wi-Fi activated, since depending on your company it can cost you between € 1 or € 2 every minute that you connect to the Internet.
Almost all mobiles deactivate data traffic by default, so watch that, although given the boom that has been experienced for some time with phones that offer all kinds of applications for the Internet , there are several special packages for when you are roaming power connect for a certain time or with a certain download limit.
Update : Roaming, after 10 years of struggle, has disappeared throughout the European Union , with June 15, 2017 being the date of its end. Countries included are Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Countries Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom, Romania and Sweden.