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Re: iPhone on o2 and problems with data roaming when abroad.

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On 04/08/16 16:07, David Wade wrote:
> My wife has an iPhone on o2 and it refused to use data services when
> roaming. I have a Sony Experia on o2. It roams just fine.
>
> I have now fixed my wifes iPhone by setting the APN from idata.o2.co.uk
> to mobile.o2.co.uk. The help
>
> http://service.o2.co.uk/IQ/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?New,Kb=Companion,question=ref(User):str(Mobile),CASE=19041
>
>
> says to only use the "idata.o2.co.uk" APN if you are on an iPhone
> contract, but as far as I can see O2 no longer offer iPhone contracts.
>
> However the automatic setup defaults to the iPhone APN.
>
> Any idea why they set things up with the idata APN and and what is
> different about the iPhone APN?
>

Might be related, I couldn't get an O2 "generic sim only" card to work 
on 4G in the iPhone 5S supplied from their shop originally on "refresh", 
it would only do 3G data.

I contacted support, and they had to do something their end - making it 
a specific iPhone supporting contract they told me. Before that, I tried 
getting their new APN configurations sent to the phone - no dice.

FWIW, On my phone, the data APN is mobile.o2.co.uk and the Visual 
voicemail & MMS is idata.o2.co.uk

-- 
Adrian C

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Re: iPhone on o2 and problems with data roaming when abroad. Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-12-26 11:58 +0000
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