[OSX-Users] Re: Iphone Roaming costs - misusing list

[Chris Andrews]

On 14 Jun 2010, at 16:16, Hugh Glaser wrote:
> Sorry, not OSX again.
> 
> I just has a couple of large bills for EU- and non-EU browse and download.
> This puzzled me, as I don't normally switch data-roaming on.
> 
> I think I may have got to the bottom of this.
> 
> As well as Data Roaming (in the General settings), there is a Cellular Data
> off/on.
> Technically when you get something from the carrier in the UK, it is not
> Roaming.
> Some apps (eg Facebook) have Push switched on by default, and so O2 is
> sending me data.
> So I need to switch of Cellular Data as well.
> 
> It may be that this is a new behaviour in OS 4.0, which I have been running
> for a while now.

The Cellular Data switch is a new switch in OS4 - it's never been there before. The general technique used for stopping cell data connections before OS4 was to mangle the APN settings so the phone couldn't find an APN to connect to.

Chris