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Roaming in Sweden

I usually blog about my roaming experiences when I travel abroad. Sometimes I have issues, but more recently things have gone very smoothly. This year I did personal day trips to Venice, Madrid and Copenhagen. My roaming experience in these three cities was all fine, so much so, I forgot to blog about them.

This week I was on an extended visit to Sweden. I was planning to be there from Sunday to Tuesday in Luleå, but because of the Nats issue at Heathrow, my connecting flight from Stockholm was cancelled. The earliest flight I could then be booked onto was three days later. I then spent three days in Stockholm.

This was the first international trip I had taken with my new iPhone 17 Pro Max and the roaming experience was seamless.

Before when I would go abroad the process I would use with my phone, was  to go into Settings -> Mobile Data and turn off virtually all the apps which could use mobile data.  I would turn off mobile data for virtually all my apps and also specifically iCloud Drive and iCloud Backup. I am pretty sure they were the culprits for my excessive data usage whilst in Portugal. This time, as with my recent trip to Netherlands, I only turned off mobile data for iCloud Drive and iCloud Backup.

However with my extended trip I did use 7GB of my fair use limit of 12GB. This is even with decent hotel wifi, and eduroam at my conference venue and in the Swedish airports.

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Eduroam at the Airport

I had read about how at Swedish airports you could connect to eduroam. I have never been to Sweden before so could never test that out. However, I recently flew from London Heathrow to Luleå in northern Sweden, with a transfer at Stockholm.

At both Stockholm Airport and Luleå Airport I was able to easily connect to eduroam and the speeds were impressive. On the test I did, I was able to get 300Mb/s down and 260Mb/s up speeds.

Of course adding eduroam to places like airports is not a technical problem, but a political one. It probably helped that Swedavia is the state-owned company that owns and operates Sweden’s major airports.

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WiFi in the Air

Now I know WiFi on planes isn’t new. However any plane that I flew on over the last few years which had WiFi would charge for WiFi usage, as I rarely had any urgent use case for using WiFi up in the air, I would just read my book. More likely was the carrier I was flying with, just didn’t have WiFi.

So, it was nice on a recent SAS flight to Luleå in Sweden (with a transfer at Stockholm) to have access free high speed wireless internet at 30,000 feet.

You’re flying on one of the first SAS aircraft equipped with our new high-speed WiFi. Enjoy free WiFi, exclusively available for EuroBonus members and 3-customers.

What’s the difference?

Unlike traditional systems, the high-speed WiFi is powered by Starlink – the world’s most advanced satellite constellation using a low Earth orbit to deliver reliable streaming, gaming, and browsing so you can stay connected on board like never before. With thousands of satellites in orbit, Starlink delivers a stable connection throughout your flight, even over oceans and in remote northern regions.

I actually thought I would get free WiFi as I was a Three customer, no that was just for Three customers in Sweden (and I think Denmark). However you can sign up to SAS EuroBonus for free and that gives you access to the free WiFi.

The speeds were excellent, I did a speed test and I was getting 200 Mb/s down and 18 Mb/s up.

More than adequate for email, messaging, syncing documents, and then some.