Roaming in the EU with O2 travel

[Anonymous]

I am helping to coordinate a cycling event in France this year, and am looking for ways to keep in touch with the cyclists cheaply and effectively.

Whatsapp is both cheap and effective here in the UK,and doesn't use much data, so I think that using it under the O2 travel package will be useful. However, as someone who usually turns off roaming abroad, I am concerned that if I leave it on this time, the 'routine' stuff I get over the Internet in the UK will quickly eat up my allowance, and either bring things to a halt, or make me incur vast bills.

Any ideas how to control this flood of data, or will 15Mb a day be enough?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

What phone are you using? If it's an iPhone you can go to Settings > Mobile then scroll down and you'll see which apps are using data, you can from here also turn data off for specific apps, so when you're abroad just turn it off for everything but whatsapp. If it's an android device it's a similar affair, you'll find the settings under settings > data usage

[MI5]

If and Android phone make sure you turn off background data and auto sync, then you will only use what you request.