One of the issues that can make us doubt the most when traveling abroad is the internet connection that we must have on our mobile phone to communicate and the fact that the country we are going to travel to does not have roaming . A problem that is certainly not as common as it might seem, but that still exists today, so before traveling we have to be prepared.
And it is that although it may not seem like it, the scare that can hit us when we see on our bill at the end of the month a large expense in mobile data derived from roaming for having been away. In the event that we are already aware of this, the only thing we can do is want to know how much it will cost us to use this type of service in a country that does not have roaming.
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 find out in advance what the expenses would be like, in the same way that you should find out about 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 every 500 MB we spend, a price that you can pay in the same way for every MB downloaded with companies like Yoigo; something absolutely exorbitant, so if we have not contracted anything and go on an adventure, we can find ourselves with a bill 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 top of the rate set by the European Union , which is much cheaper there, being for example €2 the price that you will pay for each GB consumed.
We will also have the option of carrying out the purchase of a prepaid card from the country we are going to in order to introduce the money that we see fit 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 time-limited data vouchers or calls abroad that allow us to be able to travel while using our mobile phone 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 roaming , perhaps, 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 through Europe, in most cases, roaming 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 give us the scare These are Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, North Macedonia, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, Serbia, Switzerland, and Ukraine, Vatican City. If your trip is outside of Europe , there 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 you contact your operator in the case of any type of doubt.