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Overseas Travel: How can I avoid incoming call costs but still use free text/data roaming while abroad?
We're planning to travel to Europe later this year and would like to take advantage of T-Mobile's free international text/data roaming. However, I saw that incoming calls are charged at one minut...
Great question. The easiest way to do this is to enable unconditional call forwarding. This will tell the network to immediately forward the call to a selected number without trying to pin you first which is where the charge comes from.
To enable unconditional call forwarding, you will need to follow these steps https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-4041#secondheading
Dial **21*18056377249# from your phone to enable CFU and ##21# to turn it off when you are back in the states and want to resume being able to get calls.
The 18056377249 number is the same number that your calls are forwarded to when you do not answer the phone so that the people calling you can leave a VM. Since we are enabling unconditional call forwarding, the call will be automatically routed there instead of ringing your phone first.
Jeremiahwood11 wrote:So I have magenta max military and just went from Iceland to Bahrain for the next 2 months in Iceland I didn’t need to have my data roaming on in Bahrain I do for my service to work will I get charged for having that on or will it do my normal 5gb of high speed and 256kbs after that?
Wow! Some punctuation would really help here, guy. I think I can parse it.
You're saying that you leave data roaming turned off in Iceland and you still have data service? That's curious. Start out in Bahrain with it off and see what happens. You won't be charged for data, in any event, but will they really let you run overseas forever without running into the excess roaming limit. I know they are lenient with the military plans but there has to be a limit? Are you sure there's not something you're leaving out like you have an Icelandic data SIM? Hmmm?
Is there still an Indian Vegetarian restaurant called "Swagat" in the Suq? They had the best thali and it was so cheap. It's been 20 years. I bet everything has changed.
