topic Re: Overseas roaming in Sky Mobile

Overseas roaming

SharonSk — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:48:13 GMT

Daughter has just arrived in France on way to Switzerland. She's received a message to say 'welcome to over the sea' and that she'll be charged 72p per message. We appear / thought we had international roaming switched on and I thought she'd just be charged the £2 per day? Any ideas?

Re: Overseas roaming

TimmyBGood — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:35:57 GMT

@SharonSk wrote:

She's received a message to say 'welcome to over the sea'

That appears to be a particular brand of private on-board communication service offered by at least one ferry company (and, frankly, a rather unhelpful way to inform users)

Ships typically use a two-way satellite data service which has a high wholesale cost: the operator also enjoys a nice profit margin from a captive market.

£2 daily roaming applies once the phone is in range of French (or other EU/EEA) cellular network masts.

Re: Overseas roaming

63johnw — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:21:21 GMT

Hi @SharonSk as mentioned by @TimmyBGood that message refers to when she was on the ferry, in France it will be £2 for each 24 hours use.