Travel bolt on

[Anonymous]

How do I get travel bolt on?  The text number given doesn't work. I'm travelling to Dublin

[Anonymous]

I have Travel, but will be going to a country outside the O2 Travel area.  The listed charges for data are £6 per Mb but it also says '* O2 will automatically cap your data usage to £40 (50 MB) a month whilst you're abroad'.

So any idea which it is?   50 Mb at £6 per Mb would be £300, £40 would equate to 6.66 Mb.  Or do you actually get a full 50Mb of data for only(!) £40?  

[adamtemp64]

full 50mb

[MI5]

It will be capped at £40 but you can use upto 50mb without any additional charges.

*Outside of Europe we'll stop charging you for data if your usage reaches £40 (excl VAT) and you'll be able to use up to 50MB without any additional charges. To use more you'll need to increase your spending limit to £120 (200MB allowance) by texting DATALIMIT200 to 23336.

For calls made the minimum duration is 1 minute, then charged in 15 second increments.

From here: http://www.o2.co.uk/international/travel/standard-charges

[Anonymous]

Thanks both - had looked for that info but couldn't find it.

[jonsie]

Way to go is a local sim card if your phone is unlocked wherever you travel to. O2 Travel is expensive, slow to the point of being unusable or only for people who tend to use the phone as if they were back in England.

[Cleoriff]

Yes agree about the local sim. Such a pity that this is always the best option. I never hear any of my friends in Spain moaning about network connection abd slow speeds...

[MI5]

True but @Anonymous won't be using O2 travel. They will just be roaming.

[evantkh]

@jonsie

Phones may not be designed to work with a foreign SIM even if the phone is unlocked or comes without a lock. Certain phones are designed to work with specific carrier or region and may lack proper carrier configuration for the destination network including but not limited to APNs and VoLTE configurations, resulting in weird technical issues, or more seriously don't even work.

In addition, certain networks use IMEI whitelist which prevents foreign devices from working. In South Korea, your IMEI has to be whitelisted by the network before you can use your device with a local Korean SIM and requests need to be made to add the IMEI to their networks. No idea about Ireland.

[adamtemp64]

@evantkh not sure where Ireland is relevant in this thread and Eire (southern Ireland) is in o2 travel and northern Ireland is the uk so no roaming

[MI5]

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@adamtemp64 wrote:

@evantkh not sure where Ireland is relevant in this thread and Eire (southern Ireland) is in o2 travel and northern Ireland is the uk so no roaming

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