If you decide to remove or increase your spending cap, the change will happen straight away. If you don’t fancy waiting for your allowances to refresh at the end of the month, you’ll have buy a data add-on or choose to increase your spending cap. When this happens, you can’t use extra data – in fact, all extra charges outside your allowance will be blocked.
But you can stop this happening, see: how to toggle off data completely (below).
That’s why you can use these messenger apps and stay in touch, even when you’ve no more data – you’d only be charged for going over your allowance if Twitter, WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger update themselves in the background using extra data.
These messages are data-free, even in the EU, says our monthly data usage policy (Voice and video calls are another story). None of your data allowance’s used to send or receive pictures and videos, texts and voice notes on Facebook Messenger, Twitter or Whatsapp.Two ways our SIMs save data (and why you love us…)