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Small 'included' data traffic

Monstromart

Casual Member
Hello everyone,

I was checking my Three Sim usage and, despite not having any sort of data allowance active, I can see that there are some small data events (a few Kb) that come up as 'Included' in between of other charged data traffic.

Do you know what these are? Is there a technical reason for these events? I have an Iphone if it helps.

Thank you!
 
It's been an issue on the Three network and iPhone's for some time there is some sort of handshake that uses small amounts of data (even if the Mobile Data switch is off) which is chargeable when roaming and resulted in people triggering a daily charge/having billable usage. There have been ongoing complaints about it for over a year on Three's forums.

My mother has had it on iD where there was a tiny amount of billable usage in Singapore (about 15p) even though Mobile Data was off.

The easiest way to stop it has been ensuring the bill cap is set to 0 before any trip to a non-included destination...
 
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It's been an issue on the Three network and iPhone's for some time there is some sort of handshake that uses small amounts of data (even if the Mobile Data switch is off) which is chargeable when roaming and resulted in people triggering a daily charge/having billable usage. There have been ongoing complaints about it for over a year on Three's forums.

My mother has had it on iD where there was a tiny amount of billable usage in Singapore (about 15p) even though Mobile Data was off.

The easiest way to stop it has been ensuring the bill cap is set to 0 before any trip to a non-included destination...
Thank you. I am actually on Pay as you go and I was never billed for these events, but I was just curious. I also changed the APN to something silly, but I still have this traffic. I do believe it's VoLTE related as Meatball was suggesting.
 
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