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I posted this on a 'proper' phone forum, but the bludgers there wont reply :angry:
My real source of wisdom is here, so surely one of the brothers knows exactly what I am on about?
All my other o/s travels, I didnt own a smartphone, just a basic Nokia, had roaming enabled and so I just stayed in touch with SMS. They cost something like 70c per SMS from o/s and happy with that. I could take calls if need be.
Below from other forum.
I have an iPhone 5.
When travelling o/s and not wanting to incur large data charges / massive bill for anything, what do I need turned off / on to still receive SMS and calls?
From my searches it seems if I turn Cellular Data off and Data Roaming off, I can still get SMS. Is that right?
Can I still get phone calls with both these turned off? It seems all I need is to make sure International roaming is set to on from Telstra to be able to get call. I am assuming here International Roaming is different to Data Roaming.
I even read on telstra website where they suggest you have data roaming on overseas, but reading further it may be just if you need to keep in touch via email?
I feel that by having both turned off, it will stop me being able to access email & internet which seems to be the big $ surprises to most that claim 'they were unaware' of these extra charges. For example someone said they left Data roaming on so they could get SMS, but then copped a huge bill.
Is there anything wrong with my theory? All I need is to stay in touch with home via SMS or call if necessary.
If I want to check email I'll use one of the free wi-fi spots.
I have also read that some apps still get push notifications regardless? How can that be?
If all this can be answered in a simple doc somewhere on the telstra website, please point me there.
My real source of wisdom is here, so surely one of the brothers knows exactly what I am on about?
All my other o/s travels, I didnt own a smartphone, just a basic Nokia, had roaming enabled and so I just stayed in touch with SMS. They cost something like 70c per SMS from o/s and happy with that. I could take calls if need be.
Below from other forum.
I have an iPhone 5.
When travelling o/s and not wanting to incur large data charges / massive bill for anything, what do I need turned off / on to still receive SMS and calls?
From my searches it seems if I turn Cellular Data off and Data Roaming off, I can still get SMS. Is that right?
Can I still get phone calls with both these turned off? It seems all I need is to make sure International roaming is set to on from Telstra to be able to get call. I am assuming here International Roaming is different to Data Roaming.
I even read on telstra website where they suggest you have data roaming on overseas, but reading further it may be just if you need to keep in touch via email?
I feel that by having both turned off, it will stop me being able to access email & internet which seems to be the big $ surprises to most that claim 'they were unaware' of these extra charges. For example someone said they left Data roaming on so they could get SMS, but then copped a huge bill.
Is there anything wrong with my theory? All I need is to stay in touch with home via SMS or call if necessary.
If I want to check email I'll use one of the free wi-fi spots.
I have also read that some apps still get push notifications regardless? How can that be?
If all this can be answered in a simple doc somewhere on the telstra website, please point me there.