18 
Finally having 4G in the UK is awesome, even if it is horrendously expensive. But what about when you travel with your brand new 4G phone? Right now you can’t get 4G abroad, even though lots of other countries have LTE networks — you’ll have to wait till 2013 to find out how much it’s going to gouge your wallet.
That doesn’t mean you can’t roam at all while in a far-flung country though, just that you’ll be stuck in the slow lane with bog-standard 3G. It’s unknown at this stage whether roaming on 4G will be more costly than 3G, and whether you can select one or the other on your plan. Of course, you could just turn the 4G radio off while skipping the country, which’ll also save you battery, but where’s the data-burning fun in that? [Cnet]
I thought 4g was being rolled out on lots of different parts of the spectrum in different countries so probably wouldn’t roam well anyway?
Depends on your phone. Some of them will have Pentaband LTE chips in them so you can roam in whatever countries match those bands on your phone
Has anyone here tried the 4G yet? any good?
I wonder if the EU roaming charges cap will apply to 4G as well as 3G?
Does anyone actually roam with cellular data abroad?
After learning the lesson with a £500 for one week bill, I just use WiFi for my iPhone and stick a local carrier SIM in my iPad.
I do, T-Mobile offer 50mb for £10. Not a lot, but great of picking up the odd email and checking the footie scores.
Vodafone PAYG offers £2 a day for 20mb anywhere in Europe I think
Some networks are quite decent now. Vodafone charge you £3 a day when you’re in the EU and that lets you use your UK allowances abroad, Three charge you £5 a day for unlimited internet in the EU too.
Others are pretty piss poor though.
With the cost of roaming data who would WANT to use 4G abroad? That’s like committing financial suicide