How to avoid ridiculous phone roaming bills on your summer holiday

Ridiculous phone roaming bills and how to avoid themSource: The Independent

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00:00there you are chatting away perfectly happily to your pals at home or maybe you're checking out a

00:08map using lots of data now if you are in part of the european union maybe one of the beautiful

00:16greek islands tarifa in the far south of spain then you're probably thinking well this is fine

00:22i've got a deal with my mobile company and i'm not paying a fortune for this but you could be

00:29hooked on to a different country's mobile system and that could be very expensive i've heard from

00:37people in corfu who have ended up paying albanian rates if you're on the lovely greek island of

00:44kos maybe turkey is going to have your mobile business and even in tarifa southernmost town

00:52in spain you could find that you are accidentally inadvertently spending money with morocco so

01:00please the thing to do with your mobile phone is go to settings turn roaming off once you get to

01:07your destination you can turn it turn on the settings choose a network which is a local one

01:14and take off automatic selection of networks that should see you all right then all you need to worry

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