Limiting, not blocking, Cellular Data Roaming
I'm trying to find out a way that allows us to supply our staff with iPhones, but limit liability with regards to overseas data roaming. The problem is probably quite common-- our staff travel a fair bit, so we have a cellular data plan that gives them a fixed cap of free of world-wide data roaming. Our Telco isn't great at blocking the data from overrunning, as they say their info only gets updated daily, so overages could happen for an entire day before it was blocked.
We educate the users about how to avoid going over that limit, and largely that's successful-- but occasionally, as I'm sure everyone has experienced at one point or another, someone forgets to flip the switch, or installs a new app without thinking, and then quickly they can run up a tremendous data bill.
Is there a way in Apple Configurator, or on the device itself, where I could set up a rule limiting roaming data? Ideally I just want to tell the Configurator "Please limit these users to 500mb roaming data per month, then turn off and lock roaming data".
Static Vagabond wrote:
Is there a way in Apple Configurator, or on the device itself, where I could set up a rule limiting roaming data?
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