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Why does my phone think I'm at home?
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this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2023
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If you are data roaming with your home phone plan, then it is normal. The local carrier tunnels the traffic back to your service provider in your home country and then it routes to the internet from there.
I get it all the time when I'm OS travelling.
You'd need a VPN in the country you're in to make the traffic appear local..
If it's happening on WiFi, it will be your language setting. If you're on android, try setting up a different user profile with different language and locations settings as a quick test.
This is possibly what's happening. So a VPN is the only way to bypass this? That's rather annoying.
Might look into getting a local sim