Roaming is the ability to use a mobile phone outside the coverage area of its network. There are several types of this service depending on the location of the subscriber.
Intranet roaming allows you to communicate in the network of one operator in different regions of the same country. To do this, you should contact the help desk and get information about the coverage of the network in the region of your interest.
National roaming allows you to stay in touch in those cities of the country where there is no service area for your mobile operator. This service is possible with the agreement of different mobile operators within one state. As a rule, no additional connection is required to use it, but it is necessary that the balance of your phone has a certain amount of money set by the operator, and if there are insufficient funds on the account, national roaming is disabled.
With the help of international roaming, you can stay connected, while in another country in the world. This is done using the resources of other international networks, with which your mobile operator cooperates. The phone number in roaming is preserved, and you get full confidentiality and you can not tell anyone about your absence.
As a rule, you can connect international roaming right after the service is ordered from the telecom operator. Registration in other networks occurs automatically, and payment for international communication services is charged from the subscriber's account.
Basic rules for how to activate roaming on your phone
- Before you activate the roaming service, you need to familiarize yourself with the tariff plan, at which the subscriber is currently located. This information can be obtained through the service department or by contacting the operator.
- Check that your tariff has a service to connect to international roaming, if it is not provided, then it is better to change it to the most suitable one.
- Connect roaming. It should be noted that the account must be a fixed amount of money, the amount of which depends on the tariffs of the operator. This is due to the fact that connecting and disconnecting
the service is automatic. - To find out whether roaming is connected, you can both the operator and the corresponding icon ®, which appears on the displays of modern phones ( smartphones ).
If you are abroad and do not know how to connect roaming, then in the phone settings, you must enable the search for available networks manually, and select one of those that will appear. In the GSM network, when the automatic activation of the service is activated, the phone registers itself in the guest network, immediately after arriving in another country.