topic Re: Abroad spend £45 cap in Sky Mobile

Abroad spend £45 cap

greenall56 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:00:08 GMT

Can you change the £45 monthly spend limit when abroad.

I have changed my cap to £100 but it won't update to give me data as sky have a global £45 limit. Can you change this?

Re: Abroad spend £45 cap

caesarome — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:35:15 GMT

It looks like £45 is the limit so can't be increased:

https://www.sky.com/help/articles/data-roaming-spend-cap

When you reach the £45 limit, you won't be able to use any more out of plan data abroad until next month. But you'll still be able to make calls and send texts abroad.

You can only turn it on/off, you can't change the amount.

Re: Abroad spend £45 cap

TimmyBGood — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:23:27 GMT

@greenall56

And be aware that removing the cap potentially leaves you vulnerable to running up an effectively unlimited bill, particularly if you are outside the relatively few £2 data roaming countries.

For reference, £2 per day roaming only applies to the EU/EEA plus the countries listed in bold below.

The vast majority of global destinations are 'rest of world' rate and consequently extremely expensive.

Aruba (Netherlands Antilles)
Austria
Australia
Azores
Belgium
Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles)
Bulgaria
Canada
Canary Islands (Spain)
Christmas Islands (Australia)
Cocos Islands (Australia)
Croatia
Curacao (Netherlands Antilles)
Cyprus (Incl. Northern Cyprus)
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
French Guiana (French West Indies)
Germany
Gibraltar (UK)
Greece
Guadeloupe (French West Indies)
Hungary
Iceland
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madeira (Spain)
Malta
Martinique (French West Indies)
Mayotte (French Territories in the Indian Ocean)
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Reunion (French Territories in the Indian Ocean)
Romania
Saba (Netherlands Antilles)
Sint Eustatius (Netherlands Antilles)
Sint Maarten (Netherlands Antilles)
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
St Barthelemy (French West Indies)
St Martin (French West Indies)
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
USA
United Arab Emirates

Re: Abroad spend £45 cap

greenall56 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:33:13 GMT

Thanks for the reply. Are you able to amend the billing period so that it resets? I am 3 days away from the normal cycle but only have 2 days abroad left ( in Spain)

Re: Abroad spend £45 cap

greenall56 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:34:24 GMT

If I was to remove the spend cap, and only stay in Spain, what would the data charges be? Thank you

Re: Abroad spend £45 cap

PandJ2020 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:38:51 GMT

@greenall56 wrote:
Are you able to amend the billing period so that it resets? I am 3 days away from the normal cycle but only have 2 days abroad left ( in Spain)

No, it's too late to change it now.

@greenall56 wrote:
If I was to remove the spend cap, and only stay in Spain, what would the data charges be? Thank you

If it's Spain then that's covered by the £2 daily charge. (Assuming you've not hit the 25GB monthly limit)

Re: Abroad spend £45 cap

greenall56 — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 12:14:25 GMT

I seem to have hit the £45 global charge set by Sky, but my monthly spend cap is set to £100.

if I remove the data roaming will this unlock the data again, but then stop when I hit the £100 spend, or will the data charges keep going up and up?