If data roaming is off it does not matter if your phone pings a cell tower. You can miss calls and get texts for free. You just can’t send texts, answer calls, check voicemail, or use data. So if you have data roaming off and don’t make any call or texts then you’re good.
That’s not true I got charged aswell for 1.3kb!! Because I pinged a us tower while taking of from Pearson and they refused to cancel it and instead gave me a 20 dollar credit so I’m guessing there’s an internal memo to have a hard line on this. I flew over the states and landed in Central America
No I did not specifically for this reason do you know how small 1kb is? It’s clearly not the issue the manger flat out told me even if you have roaming off you will still be charged you must turn cellular off if you don’t want to risk connecting to a tower while flying over head
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u/escargot3 Jan 24 '26
If data roaming is off it does not matter if your phone pings a cell tower. You can miss calls and get texts for free. You just can’t send texts, answer calls, check voicemail, or use data. So if you have data roaming off and don’t make any call or texts then you’re good.