I’m sure that any of you that own a 2.5G iPhone know well enough by now that you don’t go into another country and try to use their data network. When you arrive back in the US, you’ll be greeted with a wonderful bill for an outrageous amount for roaming data. So it should come as no surprise that you’ll really not want to roam with your iPhone 3G.
Just to give you an example, O2 charges around $12 per MB downloaded when roaming outside of the UK. At least with the original iPhone, the slow connection meant you probably didn’t use nearly as much data as one will with the 3G version. However, with a new iPhone, you could potentially be spending around $12 per second, which will add up quick.
Like I said, most of you probably already know how to turn off data roaming on your iPhone, however, with the new lower price for the 3G, there are going to be a lot of people that may not even think about this. So if you know someone with an iPhone going on a trip to Europe, you might want to give them a heads-up.
[via TUAW]
O2 actually charges iPhone users three quid per megabyte – that’s $6. (The original price charged by O2 until May was a rather more scary seven quid, or $14).
And, on my iPhone at least, data roaming came turned off by default.
Neither of those things stopped me spending over twenty quid while overseas recently; but just to put the record straight.
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