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david	what is roaming in computer or phone context? 3 answer(s)
	Best Answer: On a phone roaming is when your cell phone can only connect to a different companies towers. This can happen in some rural areas and overseas. Although these towers are not your companies your cell phone can connect to them so that you can make a call. For example if you had a t-mobile phone but were in an area with only At&t towers your cell phone could still connect to them and you could make calls but you might be charged extra to do it. How much or if you are charged depends on the customer agreement you have with your carrier. In my example your agreement with t-mobile. View more answers to this question.
More Answers henl4710 On a phone roaming is when your cell phone can only connect to a different companies towers. This can happen in some rural areas and overseas. Although these towers are not your companies your cell phone can connect to them so that you can make a call. For example if you had a t-mobile phone but were in an area with only At&t towers your cell phone could still connect to them and you could make calls but you might be charged extra to do it. How much or if you are charged depends on the customer agreement you have with your carrier. In my example your agreement with t-mobile. ickarus_jacobs The same as searching, for a signal that is. Sometimes if the default signal is not found and then your pc or phone will search for the next available signal if there's 1 around. waldo_mcginty Roaming on a computer relates to your profile.A profile is a collection of settings associated with your user name.It determines for instance what you have on your desktop when Windows starts.The PC reads your profile every time you log on.Profiles can be local or roaming If local the file with your settings is on the PC you sit at. Roaming profiles are used on networks and if you are given a roaming profile you can log in to the network from any machine attached to it and still get your regular desktop.The profile is downloaded from the network onto whichever machine you are working on at the time. Roaming also relates to mobile phone Your phone is enabled for a partricular network in one country.If roaming is enabled it means your network operator has an arrangement with network(s) in (an)other country to allow you to use that network as well when abroad.