Download and open the app from Apple’s App Store or Google Play. Opt in by texting YES to 28901 from your Tesco Mobile phone. Use our app at least once a month and you’ll automatically be entered. You can opt out at any time by texting STOP to 28901 from your Tesco Mobile phone. For further information please read our T&Cs. The charges will come back in from January 1. There's some potentially bad news for Tesco Mobile customers who enjoy using their phones when abroad for no extra cost. Anyone who has joined or Domestic roaming is usually free on all the major cellular providers. Still, international roaming often involves being charged data roaming fees that become costly quickly. Learn what data roaming is and what you can do to avoid charges while traveling. Data roaming is different from an extended network. Roam Like Home is available to all BT Mobile customers at no extra cost. It lets you to use your minutes, texts and data allowances within our Roam Like Home zones without paying extra roaming charges. Tesco Mobile recently announced that it will be extending its inclusive EU roaming to all pay-monthly and pay-as-you-go customers through until 2025. It currently offers free roaming in a number If you're in a destination where international roaming is not included, you can still use calling and messaging services but data is turned off by default. You can turn on data by dialing #RON#. As data is used, you will receive free text messages notifying you of the incurred charges. If you want to turn data back off, dial #ROF#. In some specific cases (see below), you may have to pay a data roaming surcharge which will be equal to the EU-wide wholesale data cap. This maximum amount is €2 / GB of data in 2022 + VAT and it will decrease over time. From 2027 onwards it will be capped at €1 / GB + VAT. Tesco Mobile roaming charges in the EU. Tesco Mobile's Home From Home scheme lets you use your UK data, minutes and texts in 48 locations in Europe, at no extra cost. It’s available for both pay monthly and pay as you go customers. And if your allowance runs out, you’ll only need to pay Tesco’s standard rates as you would at home. For EU roaming, O2 remains the best UK mobile network. O2 is now the only mobile network of the big four to include free roaming in Europe for all pay monthly customers. It’s one of the reasons I swapped from Three once my contract ended last month. (Vodafone also offers free roaming on some of its 4 Xtra plans, starting at Ā£18/month.) The news comes despite Tesco Mobile previously stating they will not introduce EU roaming charges, even after Brexit. Customers who joined Tesco Mobile on or after 16 June 2022 will be charged for EU roaming beginning 1 January 2023, at 10p / MB for data and 55p / minute for calls. For customers who joined before this date, they can continue to vZQb.