The Issue:
When traveling abroad, data costs and roaming charges can be hugely painful. If you’re like me, you’d like a phone, but don’t necessarily need access to email.
During a particularly busy period, I called Rogers and asked them if there was a way to keep the Black Berry phone functionality without the data service.
Well, they told me no. In fact, the person I spoke with on the phone gave me a complicated procedure to set up specific filters for each of my six email addresses in order to limit the amount of data downloaded to the device.
Anyway, today my Pearl decided to stop working randomly and inexplicably. While trouble shooting, I found this nifty little option, and thought I would pass it along to save others the headache of dealing with data while abroad.
The Trick: (For people with Pearls)
- GO TO OPTIONS: In your applications menu, choose the little wrench to access the options menu.
- CHOOSE MOBILE NETWORK: Scroll down until you see Mobile Network.
- TURN DATA SERVICES OFF: At the top of the screen there should an option called Data services. Select it with the track ball and turn it off.
Voila! You can now travel abroad without having to worry about hugely expensive charges and fees.
Happy traveling!
This is a fantastic feature I too revently found on my BB curve wile traveling to Europe. I should also mention that while I was there I took a risk and decided to turn on my data to make sure all was good at home. I figured I would be charged an arm and a leg for this but found there was a small fee added my bill and that was it. Perhaps I will be dinged with a large bill in the near future that simply hasn’t arrived, but so far, I was pretty impressed.