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[Guest bingobob]

I'm off to France this evening for the mountains!

I don't want to get stung for ANY data usage while I'm out there, I plan to use the phone to SMS my friends at the airport and that's it. How can I ensure none of my email messaging apps or RSS news readers go and try to fire up a internet connection and run up charges....I just want to use WIFI where possible and TomTom for the trip to the resort. But like I say I might want to send / receive the odd SMS.

[Guest mwright]

I'm off to France this evening for the mountains!

I don't want to get stung for ANY data usage while I'm out there, I plan to use the phone to SMS my friends at the airport and that's it. How can I ensure none of my email messaging apps or RSS news readers go and try to fire up a internet connection and run up charges....I just want to use WIFI where possible and TomTom for the trip to the resort. But like I say I might want to send / receive the odd SMS.

paul wrote a utility to disable GPRS some time ago. I am out and about at the moment but someone will find the link for you

[Guest jimbouk]

Or simply change your orange world access point credentials to ones that dont work.

[Guest mwright]

paul wrote a utility to disable GPRS some time ago. I am out and about at the moment but someone will find the link for you

Here it is http://www.modaco.com/New-FREE-Utility-t246171.html

[Guest Christopher Woods]

Ta for the link, I was delving around for this as I'm going to France too soon - don't forget if anybody is going abroad and plans on using their phone on T-Mobile, if you send MMSes they're half the price of SMSes for some bizarre reason - 20p/message instead of 40p/text, and of course you can get LOADS more text in an MMS than you can an SMS - you have the EU to thank for that!