{"id":3425,"date":"2018-01-21T15:52:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T07:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3425"},"modified":"2018-01-21T15:55:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T07:55:36","slug":"roaming-data-revisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2018\/01\/21\/roaming-data-revisted","title":{"rendered":"Roaming data, revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reminded about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2011\/06\/14\/roaming-data\">roaming data<\/a> as we&#8217;re now in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>For me, in the last few years, it has already become common to turn on roaming data at the RM36\/day rate for unlimited Internet access. I of course plan\/optimise this (since it follows a midnight-midnight regime). I tend not to have roaming data turned on when it is RM56\/day (so in the USA, UK, I actually have local SIM cards; I have them in a few other places too, but the reality is they&#8217;re for other things like local banks, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Lately, it&#8217;s becoming more common to get for RM25, a 3-day pass, with roaming data. It&#8217;s not unlimited, but maybe capped at 2&#8211;4GB. 2GB in 3 days is pretty generous. Sure I don&#8217;t download podcasts over the 4G connection. But it suffices for all my mobile and tethering needs generally.<\/p>\n<p>This to me has recently become somewhat of a new window, because in a country like China where you almost definitely need to turn on your VPN, you&#8217;re still getting a Malaysian IP while roaming and still enjoying access to all websites as per normal (so its great for Google products; still no Medium access though).<\/p>\n<p>I have still not bothered to try a service like Flexiroam. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reminded about roaming data as we&#8217;re now in 2018. For me, in the last few years, it has already become common to turn on roaming data at the RM36\/day rate for unlimited Internet access. I of course plan\/optimise this (since it follows a midnight-midnight regime). I tend not to have roaming data turned on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,59],"tags":[1269],"class_list":["post-3425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-travel","tag-roaming-data"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-Tf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3427,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions\/3427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}