TMO announces unlimited data roaming in 100 countries

[corkyg]

Pretty sure Verizon bought out Vodafone's share for some ridiculous number of billions?

TMobile's move is great. I don't expect to see VZW follow suit.

 

[magomago]

I'm loving Tmobile in Socal right now. Most of the time I get a decent signal/speed via LTE. Can't wait to go to Canada and not have to worry about roaming fees for sending out texts, using data. Does this apply to phone calls as well? HMMM

yup tombile is great in socal - hspa+ everywhere for me on my nexus 4 with speeds typically around 10Mbps (at home and work though i get about 17mbps ).

metropolitan areas are generally served very well by Tmobile; Tmobile is inconsistent in rural areas, and of course, real world tests need to be performed because it really comes down to where towers are placed.

I had an interesting trip that showed this....By the time i'm starting to descend into death valley, I haven't had tmobile access for about an hour and a half, at&t is barely held onto voice before it gave up 20 minutes earlier, and verizon is still chugging along with (slow mo, but still functional) 3G.

 

[JAG87]

People, it's free Edge data... It's better than nothing but don't get too excited rofl

The free roaming SMS however, that is something good. And the low voice costs are good too.

 

[magomago]

People, it's free Edge data... It's better than nothing but don't get too excited rofl

The free roaming SMS however, that is something good. And the low voice costs are good too.

I disagree with the "its better than nothing" characterization because it sounds as if its almost trivial. Having free data, even if you are going between 5-15 k/sec, is infinitely more useful than having no data.

It moves from "sigh wait 30 seconds from a webpages" to "wow this is so much more useful" when you use Opera Mobile to avoid downloading pictures.

I used edge on my BB for over 1 year and was completely functional...I even used apps like yelp just fine!

 

[lothar]

People, it's free Edge data... It's better than nothing but don't get too excited rofl

The free roaming SMS however, that is something good. And the low voice costs are good too.

Edge data is enough to check email, use Google Navigation, and read news on Google Currents, and browse Tapatalk when visiting a foreign country.
Perfect for stopovers at places like Netherlands(KLM) and London(British Airways) where they'll force you to wait 8-12 hours at the airport before connecting on your next flight.

 

[JAG87]

You should have wifi at airports....

I never said it's not useful, but at Edge speeds they have you under control. You are basically funnelled into barely using any data because your connection is so slow that you will barely use your phone. Facetime? forget about it. Skype? probably not. Even something trivial like sending a photo over email becomes a 5 minute ordeal unless you resize it to a tiny resolution. Just about the only thing you can do is plain emails, IM, and probably reading a few light websites. So like I said, nice to have but nothing to get excited about... When they let us use our services internationally like we do at home (or at least as fast as the local infrastructure can provide), we can call it true free roaming.

 

[Auric]

When was global roaming (voice & messaging but not data) enabled for Pay in Advance (it used to be only Canada and Mexico)? Presumably before this announcement since the relevant doc was last updated Sep 13, 2013:

http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-4760

 

[AznAnarchy99]

You should have wifi at airports....

I never said it's not useful, but at Edge speeds they have you under control. You are basically funnelled into barely using any data because your connection is so slow that you will barely use your phone. Facetime? forget about it. Skype? probably not. Even something trivial like sending a photo over email becomes a 5 minute ordeal unless you resize it to a tiny resolution. Just about the only thing you can do is plain emails, IM, and probably reading a few light websites. So like I said, nice to have but nothing to get excited about... When they let us use our services internationally like we do at home (or at least as fast as the local infrastructure can provide), we can call it true free roaming.

Lmao I can tell you from experience you do not get free wifi at airports. I think the only airport I had free wifi was in Dublin. Paris gave me an hour free but I had multiple devices so I was able to get an hour on each.

 

[AViking]

I watched an interview with I think the CEO of Tmobile and he was ranting and raving about how the other carriers are basically screwing their customers and making 90% profit margins.

Might be worth noting that I pay almost nothing for pay as you go overseas. I know the US network is much bigger but consider this: Over here the carriers aren't stupid. To keep costs down they build the networks as a group. It's far too expensive to build a bunch of separate 4G networks.

In the last 31 days my phone bill was $12. I can't get it much cheaper than that but it's not a fair comparison since I barely used the phone this month. Well I did but all calls and SMS between the same network are free and I didn't call other networks much.

Depending on your data usage it's crazy cheap over here. The most I could pay is $37 a month. So $12-$37 a month for 80Gbps with an average around 40Gbps-60Gbps.

 

[AViking]

Lmao I can tell you from experience you do not get free wifi at airports. I think the only airport I had free wifi was in Dublin. Paris gave me an hour free but I had multiple devices so I was able to get an hour on each.

Depends on the airport. I was probably at 20 airports last year and I'd say half had free wife, 5 charged you for it, and 5 didn't have anything.

Train stations generally have free wife now for at least 1 hour.

When all else fails McDonalds has free wife and we have a 7-11 type convenience store here with free wife.