Data roaming

If you want to use your Blackberry abroad, access the Internet via your phone or data card or send picture messages to friends back home you will need to be on a Pay Monthly price plan, and check that we have a data roaming agreement with at least one network in the country you are visiting.

Data roaming is billed by the amount of data that you send or receive as opposed to the time that you are online. For example, you can to stay connected throughout your working day but only be charged for the volume of data sent and received by your device. Data is charged in Kilo Bytes (KB) with 1024 KB equal to 1 Mega Byte (MB).

1 MB is approximately equal to:

200 text only emails
25 web pages
25 one page CVs
10 large word documents

1 MB of data when roaming will cost between £4.00 and £12.00 depending on the network visited. The charging criteria used by networks vary and can be as follows:

Volume Charging per KB
Minimum Charge per connection with Volume Charging thereafter

One the major benefits of using a BlackBerry is that it uses very little data. This makes it considerably cheaper than other similar mobile email services when it comes to roaming . The average BlackBerry user will spend 30-50p per day accessing their email and documents while outside the island. For information of data charges for a specific location, please get in touch on 0808 101 5247.

Total Operators 178

Destinations covered 87

Check here to see which countries and networks we have Data Roaming agreements with.