topic Re: 48 and the new roaming tariffs in Memberships

48 and the new roaming tariffs

dermodyr — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:46:58 GMT

New EU legislation arriving in mid June. It states that when you are travelling within the EU you will be able to use calls, texts and data from your original plan, at no extra cost.

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/roaming-tariffs

So will I be able to use my 48months bundle over in Espana?

Re: 48 and the new roaming tariffs

dalyer — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:24:46 GMT

Not sure about calls and texts but 48 still don't support data services while roaming abroad so I don't expect any change there.

Last time we had such an EU mandated change to roaming charges 48 complied so I would expect them to do so here too.

If I hear anything more from 48 support I'll let you know.

Hope this helps.

Re: 48 and the new roaming tariffs

dalyer — Thu, 11 May 2017 11:39:53 GMT

This new announcement is relevant here:

https://community.48months.ie/t5/Most-Popular-Questions/Going-away-Using-48-when-roaming/m-p/44774#M229

Re: 48 and the new roaming tariffs

evanboy — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 16:04:21 GMT

I can connect to mobile services in France, and make and receive calls and texts, but data roaming is still not available.

Re: 48 and the new roaming tariffs

dalyer — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 17:07:10 GMT

Check the APN field of your APN configuration.
If it's not 48months.liffeytelecom.com then change it to that.
Then switch airplane mode on and then off and see if data services work.
If they don't then post back and/or contact 48 support for further advice.

Hope this helps.

Re: 48 and the new roaming tariffs

frank_franks — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 20:07:55 GMT

Hi Dalyer,
Thanks a mil. That works a treat! Cheers

Re: 48 and the new roaming tariffs

dalyer — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 20:35:29 GMT

Great. Thanks for confirming that it worked.
That tip has worked for a few others so it may be the general solution to this common problem for people roaming in the EU on a Guido membership.
Glad it helped anyway.

Re: 48 and the new roaming tariffs

paulkbyrne — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 22:37:40 GMT

Worked a treat for me in Germany also at weekend, many thx

Re: 48 and the new roaming tariffs

paulkbyrne — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 22:39:24 GMT

It appears the issue is that the APN doesn't update automatically and needs to be done manually

Re: 48 and the new roaming tariffs

dalyer — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 22:44:15 GMT

What do you mean exactly?

Doesn't update to what?

What needs to be done manually?

As far as I can see many people who have had this problem find that the APN field of their APN/internet settings configuration gets changed when roaming in the EU and manually editing it to set it back to 48months.liffeytelecom.com fixes the problem (after a reboot or after switching airplane mode on and then off).

Do you mean something other than this?

Re: 48 and the new roaming tariffs

paulkbyrne — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:08:16 GMT

I did exactly as you've explained above; just annoying the APN needs to be changed back in the first instance, I don't need to alter APN with Three for example. You know why 48 is different?

Re: 48 and the new roaming tariffs

dalyer — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:10:19 GMT

OK - thanks for clarifying.

No I don't know why this happens on 48 and I'm not sure why 48 support haven't been able to figure it out and solve the issue so that no manual intervention is required when roaming in the EU on a Guido membership...