Coming home from two weeks abroad and some idle time to think, I have a few more topics to blog about.
One of them is one of the things I consider one of the most obscene forms of ripoff the mobile phone carriers do is „data roaming.“ If you want to bring your smartphone online, what they do is they do not let you easily use their own data network, but rather insist on transporting your IP traffic over their own networks to your home provider where it then is allowed to hit the public internet.
What is this?
Let me just use the local network, I don’t care where the transit into IP world happens. This would be so much cheaper, and any decent phone can handle the configuration. Heck, I did this years ago with my Treo!
Data Roaming?
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Whilst I sympathise, it’s not that simple. The real asset is the wireless spectrum and network where you are visiting – your home carrier doesn’t own it. Someone has to pay to get the data off your handset and onto „a“ network – th easy stuff happens after that.
The visited network wants its pound of flesh.
There are alternates, they all involve a change of SIM card. http://www.vroam.com might work for you.
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