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Originally Posted by mikemhg
You're right. I've argued this with TELUS countless times, they've indicated that receiving an SMS text, can trigger Roam Like Home.
This is fucking annoying because the first text is ALWAYS from TELUS when I land abroad, which triggers the daily roam fee.
Their answer is "put your phone in airplane mode then".
Fuck off, I shouldn't have to be in airplane mode to avoid you arseholes texting me about buying travel insurance the minute I land somewhere. It's all scammy in my opinion, the standard roam text fee is always cheaper than the $15 Roam Like Home charge they levy.
I'd prefer the thing turned off entirely, which seems impossible to get done.
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Its probably data. It's almost always the data. Your carrier messages are zero rated. The received SMS doesn't trigger charges.
Even when you have data roaming off, the phones are still sending a trickle of data through, to Apple/Samsung/Google. It's a hardware issue. (Fuck you Apple.)
There are indicators to tell what triggers the roaming, but since all the Canadian Frontline customer service agents are gone, I doubt many of the fresh overseas agents know how to look.