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Hi
Did you travel by ferry from France to the UK? Or at any point were you in Switzerland or a border area of France?
The most common occurrences of any sort of unexpected roaming charges would usually be when people are on ferries.Â
Whilst out at sea, you’d no longer be connected to either a UK network or a French network and instead be covered from a satellite network through the ferry. So you’d no longer be within reach of one of the 50 destinations to which you’d get inclusive roaming in.
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In other cases. In the French Alps. If you’re far out from where mobile coverage might be prevalent. Then your phone would automatically connect to the strongest network it can reach. If that happened to be one in Switzerland, then that would cost money to use as Swiss networks aren’t a covered destination for inclusive EU roaming. The best way around that is to have your phone only manually connecting to a French network (Orange or Bytel) -or- to turn off roaming whilst in such regions.
I’ve returned from a holiday to France and been charged a ‘rest of world roaming’ charge of £5.83. I have only been to France and the UK. Can this be right when I haven’t left the EU?
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Mohammed
I know you mentioned you added the APN manually, have you tried deleting all APN settings and re-adding?
To confirm, Roaming needs to be turned on on the iD App (which it seems it has already been done if you can make calls and texts).
"Data Roaming" needs to also be turned on in the handset settings. Without this, no amount of correctly configured APN settings will matter.
Have you definitely turned on Data Roaming in the handset settings also?
Mohammed
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