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Minimize Your Data Costs While Roaming

Minimize Your Bill While Roaming

The major selling point of BlackBerry devices is that they enable you to remain connected anywhere at any time to anyone. But unless you have a lot of money to spare and a good reason, you probably don’t want to be burning through your data on your summer vacation. With this in mind, here are some preventative measures that you can take with your BIS account to ensure that you don’t arrive home to a massive bill.

Turn off Your Data When Roaming

The best way to minimize your bill is the most drastic - turn off your data connection while roaming.

To do this, go to Options > Mobile Network > Data Services > “Off When Roaming”. The best thing about this feature is that as soon as your hit your home network your data services will re-connect automatically.

BlackBerry News Minimise Roaming Data

Enable Email Filters

If you need to send and receive a few emails from select family, friends, or co-workers, you can avoid receiving email from everyone else by setting up a simple filter.

To do this, log onto your BIS account via your carriers BIS website. Click on the filter button for the email address that you want to add a filter. You can now create a filter that will be applied when:

1. You receive a high-priority email
2. A person you have selected has sent the email
3. The subject of the email has contains a keyword you have selected
4. The message is directed or CC’ed to a name of your choosing

For each of these settings, you can choose whether you want that e-mail to be forwarded or not forwarded to your device (click on picture for full image).

Email Filter to Reduce Data While Roaming

Disable Forwarding of an Email Account

Without turning off your data connection (thus allowing you to use the internet), you can disable the forwarding of all email to one of the addresses associated with your BIS account.

To do this, log onto your carriers BIS website, select the email account you’d like to stop being forwarded, and select “Do not forward messages to device”.

Email Filter to Reduce Data While Roaming

Turn off Applications that Use Data

A lot of BlackBerry applications use data behind the scenes to bring you things such as news feeds, weather, and more. And because a lot of these things can be quite data intensive, its important to make sure that only the programs that you desire to use while roaming are able to connect to the data network.

To stop a program from using data go to Options > Advanced Options > Applications > highlight the application you wish to stop from using data and hit Menu > Edit Permissions > highlight “Connections” and hit Menu > Change Option and click on “Deny”.  Now hit back and click on save.

Minimize Your Bill While Roaming

Have a happy summer!
Written by BlackBerryForums.com user MikeyPants (Previous BlackBerryNews Writer)