You Can Spend $750 in International Data Roaming in One Minute on AT&T

Re:You Can Spend $750 in International Data Roaming in One M... by vermontdevil on Saturday February 21, 2015 @05:30PM (#9087271)

I have the same issue. In-laws have a business in a small town north of Port Huron which is across the lake from Canada.

With nothing between the town and Canada but the lake, often my phone would randomly switch between AT&T or Rogers. I'll get hit with insanely expensive roaming charges without realizing it. Not till the phone switches back to ATT and I get a text message. That requires me to call ATT and deal with it.

It's such a headache that I just turn off the phone when I go there. My in-laws and all their friends in that area sticks with Verizon for this reason. ATT needs to find a way to be smarter about geo-location and not just randomly switch around when one is near the border.

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Re:You Can Spend $750 in International Data Roaming in One M... by danellis on Sunday February 22, 2015 @01:17AM (#9088473)

> My in-laws and all their friends in that area sticks with Verizon for this reason.

How does that help? My Verizon phone used to roam onto Canadian networks if I got too close to the border.

> ATT needs to find a way to be smarter about geo-location and not just randomly switch around when one is near the border.

No kidding. It's not like they don't know exactly where you are.

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Re:You Can Spend $750 in International Data Roaming in One M... by MichaelGG on Saturday February 21, 2015 @08:33PM (#9087807)

Can't you just go into the mobile network settings and manually select a network instead of leaving it on auto?

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Re:You Can Spend $750 in International Data Roaming in One M... by spullara on Saturday February 21, 2015 @07:34PM (#9087645)

Turn off data roaming.

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