Data vs. Text

[Paraflier]

Hello again-

I will be traveling to Cabo San Lucas in January. I am aware of the international Verizon roaming charges associated with voice and text. My question is this: Are notifications (i.e. a facebook notification, WordFued, etc) considered a text, or part of data? I don;t mean when you sign up and Twitter sends you a text. I understand that is a text. But the notification bar up top of the Droid 2. Do those pull from your data?

Reason I ask is I don't want to get hit with a big phone bill from International Data Charges when I get back. My plan is to enable Wi-Fi to use at the hotel, and disable all notifications.

But in case I did not do that.... Would I be getting hit for the .05 every time a notification comes up? Or would it be considered data?

Thanks!

 

[RiverOfIce]

It is data. Do your self a huge favor and turn off your phone before you leave the service area. There is a lot of settings you can not control which could us 3g. I have seen this first hand.

 

[Paraflier]

Good call... Think I will disable data roaming completely. Those surprises suck.

 

[IOWA]

It is data. Do your self a huge favor and turn off your phone before you leave the service area. There is a lot of settings you can not control which could us 3g. I have seen this first hand.

Also for people who are rooted, they can try droidwall to block all data communications as well.

-useful for those on limited data plans

I've tested droidwall and on full lockdown(so to speak) I haven't seen any packets send/receive through ddms.

 

[Penguissimo]

Keep in mind, though, that WiFi use doesn't count against your data usage, so you can do anything you want while connected to WiFi and not hit any trouble