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roam about

To move or wander in an aimless, ambling, unrestricted manner around (some place or area). Mr. Jackson is always roaming about the school after everyone else has gone home. I only had a day in London, so I just spent the time roaming about, trying to get a sense of the city. There have been reports of a bear roaming about the neighborhood, so be careful.
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roam around

To move or wander in an aimless, ambling, unrestricted manner around (some place or area). Mr. Jackson is always roaming around the school after everyone else has gone home. I only had a day in London, so I just spent the time roaming around, trying to get a sense of the city. There have been reports of a bear roaming around the neighborhood, so be careful.
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roam about

 and roam around
to wander or range about freely. Stay where you are and don't roam about. I'm too tired to roam around very much.
See also: roam
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Syniverse's work with LG Uplus on its 5G roaming service builds on a long history of collaboration in which Syniverse has helped enable LG Uplus go to market with other industry firsts, such as voice-over LTE (VoLTE) roaming service.
To avail any of the 'Roam Like Home' service, Freedom postpaid customers with active roaming service can subscribe through My Etisalat UAE app, by dialing *177#, by SMS, or call the customer care centre or visit the nearest Etisalat business centre.
Azercell's Data Roaming Packages are valid in the networks of 80 operators functioning in 53 countries of the world, the number of which is constantly increasing.
In addition, Smart customers can easily purchase and monitor their data roaming activities with Smart's Data Roaming Manager, a one-stop portal that features all available data roaming products; it also keeps track of their data roaming usage.
Said Salvador Anglada, Etisalat's chief business officer: "This exclusive proposition is in line with Etisalat's commitment to offer innovative and convenient communication services to our roaming business users.
To activate, just switch on data roaming on your phone and you're good to go.
The first roaming regulation issued in 2010 covered only voice calls made while roaming and was implemented gradually over a two-year period with full implementation in February 2012.
Muscat, Apr 17 (ONA) The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) announced that roaming users in the GCC countries will now enjoy further reductions in roaming prices for voice calls, mobile data and, SMS services.
MANAMA: The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) Bahrain has announced that GCC mobile users will enjoy further price reductions on roaming rates from April 1.
The telecom company had earlier announced free incoming calls on roaming calls, but still charges the premium on calls made while on roaming.
Roaming on your mobile network may soon happen at no extra cost as telecom companies are scrapping the additional charges on incoming and outgoing calls, spurred by zero roaming charges offered by Reliance Jio and state-owned BSNL.
The European Union proposed on Wednesday cutting the wholesale roaming rates that telecoms operators pay each other when customers use their mobile phones abroad to pave the way for the abolition of retail roaming charges by summer next year.
In November 2015, European Regulation 2015/2120 set out that from 15 June 2017 retail roaming surcharges should be abolished and customers allowed to "Roam Like At Home (RLAH)".
Summary: Roaming users in Bahrain will benefit from lower GCC roaming prices for voice, SMS and mobile data, effective 1 April 2016, Bahrain's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has announced.
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