To cut a long story short, I noticed a deduction on a card and was told it's for data roaming, though the option has never been put on in any of my phones. Their proof is that I was hooked on their roaming partner's network.
I recall that when I once set the network for a U Mobile card to Singtel/M1 instead of Starhub, I received a message saying that I'll not be able to use data roaming if I'm not on their partner's network.
Now I'm thinking of changing all my cards to networks other than their partners'. Do you think this is feasible?
Anyone knows?
i thought you dont like umobile?
malaysian cards are notorious for auto ppu data roaming and missing credits. at least in singapore, we can turn off mobile data and data roaming from telco end. in malaysia, they wont let you do that for an obvious reason
i was transiting in hk once, i turned on my smartphone with hotlink in it. while scanning for network, my credits were deducted. i figured that during scanning and handshake, some packets were exchanged and this was counted by maxis as valid data use even though mobile data was switched off.
if you change to non partner, you could be slapped with higher charges. but it might work for umobile prepaid. they have this daily data roaming flat charge for a number of countries which singapore is among them, and you are supposed to be locked out from non-preferred partners.
if i need to turn on my malaysian number for any reason, a safer way that i have been using is to put the card into an old school phone. but then again singapore is stopping 2g service soon! perhaps i would need to hook up to indonesian 2g
perhaps you should stick to xox
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