While on the Olympic Peninsula, I got a text from Verizon telling me I was roaming on a Canadian data plan. I was still in the US, but on Hurricane Ridge, so maybe I was picking up a signal from Victoria, BC. I had no data service in Olympic. Without that text, I wouldn’t have known I was ‘roaming’.
I’ve skied in the OLYMPICS.
My Sprint phone warns me when I go ‘roaming’, which
includes inside MS buildings in Redmond.
I do not know Verizon’s policy, but I do know that at T-Mobile, it was possible to have international roaming overages refunded if you were near the border. I saw a few times people charged Mexican roaming charges, who were never actually in Mexico. We would simply look up where you were at, at the time of the call, and see if you were really in the U.S. (Although, if a person could do it, i’m sure the computer could have been programmed to look at the data, also). I had to do that a number of times for people in Texas. Of course, who knows how many people simply paid the charges not knowing they were being charged for something that never really happened. I’m glad that you got that text, and were able to avoid the hassle.