Phone thinks I am abroad

[Geckoguy]

I bought an unlocked htc desire put my sim in and everything seemed rosy, but i just found out it's charging me as if i was in a foreign country. Has this happened to anyone or can someone give me a hand.

 

[Evil Genius]

do you have any more information?

where are you based?

are we talking data usage here or call/text issues?

 

[Geckoguy]

Sorry, i am in a village in hampshire, reception is not great and sometimes reads as no service. Using my old pay as you go sim from my n70. I was sent the texts saying the eu service charges and sent a text and then checked my credit and saw that it was not coming out of my bonus from topping up and i was being charged eu rates.

 

[nacatomi]

Sounds like somehow you are roaming on another network. If you go into settings --> wireless & networks --> mobile networks what does it say in there??? Looks like you can manually set a preferred network.

 

[Geckoguy]

ah, i turned off mobile network because i didnt want it to use 3g internet and so cost me lots of money, would that have made it think it was abroad?

 

[nacatomi]

not sure about that one but i don't think it should... does it definitely say its on the network it should be on? also do you ever get an R next to the signal bars.. Would be useful to know its its calls\texts or data you are being charged for.

 

[nx1977]

Because your on 3 with no 3g so are using Orange

 

[nacatomi]

Yeah.. I knew that thanks, I get roaming when I'm in a certain part of our building so looked that up when I first got my desire. Just wondered if the OP was getting the same issue cos he mentioned signal probs.

 

[carrtim1]

I noticed this the other week. I was sat in the pub and happened to look at my phone and there was an R showing. It will still showing on the 3 network.

I unticked the data roaming option and it went. I never got charged any extra though so no idea what was going on there. Even if it went onto Orange/T-Mobile nutwork it shouldn't show as roaming unless things have changed in the past couple of months.

 

[nacatomi]

I have it unticked too. 3 & Orabile have a roaming agreement set up as 3 is a 3G only network, if you go to an area with a very bad 3 signal it will switch switch networks onto a 2G only connection which you can uses for calls\texts until you are in a 3 coverage area again. My thought would be that if the OP is not on a network that has a roaming agreement (either 3G or 2G) then he couls be getting charged as if he were abroad i.e. a UK O2 user with no signal managing to roam onto the UK Vodafone network. Not saying this to be true but just a suggestion.