The surprise comes when you don’t expect it
If there is something that we can regret taking a trip, it is that when we get home, we see a huge amount of expenses that we have had, to which we have to add those that will arrive on the bill, in this case the mobile phone line . If you want to avoid these scares, it is best to inform yourself in advance how would the expenses bein the same way that you should inform yourself of the bonuses.
As far as expenses are concerned, if we want to know exactly what we are going to be charged for using our mobile phone abroad with our operator, something that we already anticipate is not cheap at all. If we look at the big companies we see how, for example, Movistar will make us pay €6.05 for each 500 MB that we spend, a price that you can pay in the same way for each MB downloaded with companies like Yoigo; something absolutely exorbitant, so if we have not hired anything and go on an adventure, we can find an invoice of thousands of euros at the end of the month. Of course, if you spend a lot of time abroad, regardless of the operator you are from, you will be completely obliged to pay the ceiling of the tariff set by the European Unionwhich is much cheaper there, being for example €2 the price you will pay for each GB consumed.
We will also have the option of carrying out the purchase a prepaid card of the country to which we go in order to introduce the money that we see convenient and that we are going to use during that period of time, although with calls abroad it may be that we are charged a surcharge.
When we refer to the bonuses that we have available from our operator, we have the possibility that they can indicate the different rates that they have when it comes to being able to travel. These are usually data vouchers or calls abroad in a limited way in the time that allow us to be able to travel while using our mobile without many difficulties or surprises not foreseen in the bill.
Which countries do not have roaming?
Once we know what they may charge us in a country where there is no roamingPerhaps, if we do not have a trip to make in a short time, what we need to know above all is which countries do not have this service available. In this way, if it is essential for us when traveling to save a little on the trip and do it in a ‘low cost’ way, we do not have scares when we return.
If we do it for Europe, in most cases, the roaming It must be free by European Union regulations until at least 2032 -because the date can be extended-, but there are numerous countries that are in Europe that can scare us. These are Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, North Macedonia, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, Serbia, Switzerland, and Ukraine, Vatican City. if your trip it’s outside EuropeThere are also countries under this pretext, but it is best that you find out about the conditions and the different agreements in advance by each company.
These countries, despite being in Europe, do not belong to the EEA, although it is true, there are some operators, such as Vodafone with Switzerland, that do not charge you anything for traveling to that country. In any case, beyond what this list can guide us, it is best that contact your operator in case of any kind of doubt.