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Wednesday, February 26th, 2025 7:24 PM

Global travel pass charged 560$ without using it

We recently traveled outside the U.S. and made sure to turn off the eSIM while abroad. However, upon returning, I was shocked to find a $560 charge on my Xfinity Mobile bill for the Global Travel Pass. When I checked the usage details, I saw that every day always show data usage of 0.01MB, triggering a $10 daily charge per line—totaling $20 per day for our two lines.

I immediately contacted Xfinity Mobile support. The first agent acknowledged it was a system glitch and assured me I would receive a refund. He stated that $430 from the last bill would be refunded, while the remaining $130 (not yet charged) would be credited to my next bill. However, after waiting a week, no refund appeared.

I called again. This time, the agent claimed there was no record of a refund request but assured me she had now processed it. A week later, still nothing. On my third call, another agent confirmed that a refund request existed but had not been processed. He escalated the issue to his manager and guaranteed I would receive my refund within 3–5 business days.

Yet, five days later, there was still no refund. Frustrated, I called one last time. This agent kept me on hold for 30 minutes, only to tell me that—despite everything I had been promised—it was "company policy" that I must pay the full $560.

This is completely unacceptable. Xfinity Mobile acknowledged their system error, repeatedly assured me of a refund, and then ultimately refused to honor it. I expect Xfinity to take responsibility and resolve this issue immediately.

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10 days ago

I will share a post on my social media to ensure that others don’t fall victim to the same scam I did.

Problem Solver

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10 days ago

Unfortunately international connectivity is complicated both by the multitude of providers and the further complication of how different devices need to be set up by each user. You didn’t say what devices you were using, nor did you say how you thought you turned off your XM eSIM, nor whether you powered your devices off and on when you believe you turned off your XM eSIM. 

It sounds like you were using a foreign eSIM, otherwise you would have just powered off your phones?

Did you use XM WiFi Calling? If so your XM eSIM must have been active but you could have turned off XM Data Roaming to prevent all international charges. Note, just turning off cellular data would not have turned off the daily $10 charges, and you should have seen International Carrier names on your phone, as well as daily GTP SMS. 

Hopefully it was entirely XM’s error in your case, but be aware of all the gotchas mentioned above. 

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I use an iPhone, and in my case, I went to Settings > Cellular Data and switched Cellular Data from Primary to Off. During my trip, I never used this line to make any calls, as confirmed by the usage statistics. However, I am still being charged for 0.01MB of data every day, despite Data Roaming being disabled even before I traveled. If I had missed anything you mentioned above, how could I consistently use exactly 0.01MB of data per day?

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This is not an isolated case—other customers have reported experiencing the exact same issue. For example: "Got charged for travel pass when data was off"

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771 Messages

9 days ago

To stop the GTP $10 charges you need to go into your account from your iPhone and turn off GTP for each of your devices. Power each device off and on and check your account again to see that this that this worked. 

To stop all international pay as you go and GTP you may need to call XM and have them disable all international roaming for your XM lines. You should still be able to use WiFi Calling. 

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2 days ago

Glad the Xfinity executive team reached out—they've now issued the refund.

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