In an emergency situation, mobile connectivity is an important tool to keep us informed and in communication with our families or government authorities. And in this sense, due to the various bad weather fronts that affect various parts of the country, cell phone antennas could fail with some operator and become unavailable. Here National Emergency Roaming can be very helpful.
In an emergency situation and in order not to be isolated from mobile connectivity if your operator fails, the Government of Chile and the operators have facilitated the use of National Emergency Roaming. And here we will teach you how to activate it. First we must clarify that this has no relationship with National Automatic Roaming, since its activation is different.
How to activate National Emergency Roaming on Android?
To activate National Emergency Roaming from a phone or tablet (if it has SIM) with Android operating systemwe must perform the following steps:
- Enter “Settings” or it could also appear as “Settings”
- Then, depending on the phone brand, press “More” or “Connections” or “SIM Card” or “Internet and Networks”
- Then look for the option “Mobile networks” or “SIM”
- Subsequently, enter “Network operators”.
- Once inside, deactivate the “Automatic selection” option.
- Choose the available mobile operator.
How to activate National Emergency Roaming on an iPhone?
The steps to activate National Emergency Roaming from a device with iOS (or iPadOS if the tablet has a cell phone) are the following:
- Go to “Settings”.
- Enter “Cellular Network”.
- In the SIM Card section, select the one you use.
- Verify that “Data Roaming” is activated.
- Then go to “Network selection”.
- Deactivate the “Automatic” option.
- Select the available network operator.
In summary, with the previous steps we can connect to another company’s network if ours is not available, in order to make use of mobile data, telephony and messaging. And it is basically forcing the manual connection to another operator.
Finally, if you are within the areas affected by the bad weather front, We recommend that you activate the energy saving mode on your mobile device. Like prefers communication through messages and not video calls to save data and battery. Also keep Pay attention to possible SAE alerts to evacuate if the authority so indicates. And if you have a power bank stored and charged, keep it on hand if necessary.
