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    Activating Apple Watch bought overseas on T-Mobile

    I currently have an Apple Watch Series 6 on T-Mobile's DIGITS Apple Watch Plus which allows international roaming, necessary because I live overseas and travel for work. This year I want to upgrade to the Apple Watch Ultra 3, but I want to buy mine overseas to avoid the blood oxygen function...
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    Carrier Disabling international roaming for Greece (AT&T)

    I will be heading to Greece soon and would like to use a plan from there. I have read online that disabling all international service from AT&T’s end should make it so the phone does not get cellular service at all through the AT&T plan. This should allow the AT&T plan to send and receive calls...
  3. thewhitehart

    iPhone 14/Plus Transfer eSIM to new iPhone while roaming

    I’ll be traveling from Japan to New York when the iPhone 15 is released, and I’d like to buy it. I realize it won’t have a SIM card tray if sold in the US. Could I transfer my Docomo eSIM to the new iPhone 15 while roaming? Or should I wait until I get back to Japan? I don’t want to suddenly...
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    Adapt roaming thresshold Mac RSSI

    Hi All, I'm experiencing some trouble with roaming on a 2014 Macbook Pro. The macbook is the only client who doesn't roam fast or at all. Turns out the threshold is set at RSSI -75dBm by default, but can you change this to for an example -65dBm or different value? Allready tried the Sudo...
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    iPhone Possible bug? Charged for data roaming with 'Data Roaming Off'

    Before leaving for a trip abroad, I made sure to switch the setting for my Simcard to Data Roaming Off in order to avoid exorbitant data roaming charges. My operator 3 charges 100 DKK (15 USD) for 1 MB outside the EU. What surprised me this morning was a text message from 3 that was telling me...
  6. thewhitehart

    iPhone 7/Plus Data roaming accrued despite setting it to off

    I'm using a SoftBank Japanese iPhone 7 in the US. Roaming for voice and data is free as long as Sprint’s network is used. As per Softbank’s instructions, data roaming should be set to off while 4G voice and data should be enabled, and network selection should be set to automatic. The phone...
  7. mrfrim

    High Sierra drops WiFi after roaming...

    Hi, Beside the usual roaming problems with Mac there is now a new problem with our Macs. When the client finally changes AP it first connects then the connection seems to come and go for a few seconds and finally it loses the connection and I have to manually connect to the WiFi again...
  8. xsofiixx

    Roaming doesnt work

    Hey guys My roaming doesnt work and I dont know why. I went to the store before I came to Austria so they would activate roaming and do everything on my phone so it will work. They did. It doesnt work. Surprise. Yes, mobile data and roaming is turnt on in the settings. Theoretical, what needs...
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    iPhone ate 2GB data in 4 days??

    I bought a MiFi dongle and a 2GB international data sim to use abroad (to avoid roaming charges). I switched off Mobile/Cellular data, and left the phone connected to the dongle via WiFi. I burnt through 2GB in 4 DAYS!! :( Usually I don't even use 1GB per month of data. But I realised I'd...