If you are looking to buy an iPhone in the UK, beware data roaming charges when you travel to mainland Europe.

02, the carrier for iPhone in the UK has an unlimited plan for iPhone users, but this plan only extends to those in the boundaries of the country. If you were to say, travel underneath the channel to France you would expect insane digital romaing charges if you were to attempt to access a 3G to download a file. It is estimated that digital roaming would be charged as £3 (about $6 USD) per one megabyte of data transferred across the network in EU and £6 in the United States. If you think about this in terms of music files, a single song would cost you a pretty penny.

Luckily for everyone, there is a function in the iPhone system preferences that allows you to turn of digital data roaming, so you can escape these insane costs.

-Jameson

[Source: Times Online]

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