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snidely · 01-12-2010, 05:12

I'm know I'm being repetitive - but U.S. customers can get unlimited intl roaming - with a couple caveats:
1. You have to be on T-Mobile (an unlimited voice plan is about $50/mo.)
2. You need a phone that has their UMA feature. (All recent BBerrys, a few others, and most new Androids coming out will have this feature.
3. To make "free" calls, you have to be able to connect to a wifi connection
4. The destination number for free calls has to be a U.S. number. You would be able to dial non-U.S. numbers for as little as 2 cents/min. by making use of Google Voice. Using GV is seamless on virtually all smart phones.

Some day (not in my lifetime, I'm too old), there will we world-wide roaming among most cell carriers. I still remember the early days of cellular in the U.S. Every time you went to a new metro area on a trip you would have to register on a new system and often pay $2/day plus 50 cents to $1/min to make calls while you roamed. If you were
on a long trip you could pay 3 or 4 of those daily charges per day. It was iffy if callers calls to you came thru. Making outgoing calls, even from your home area, incurred high LD charges.
...mike
In the meantime, if you are in one location for any length of time, get a local prepaid. I don't think intl roaming SIMS will ever be solid enuf to appeal to a mainline business user. When a company spends $thousands in salary, airfare, hotel etc. to send someone overseas, the few hundred in roaming charges that may be incurred is a non-issue.

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snidely (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 451 Join Date: 09 May 2005 Location: Berkeley, California and Miami Country:	01-12-2010, 05:12 I'm know I'm being repetitive - but U.S. customers can get unlimited intl roaming - with a couple caveats: 1. You have to be on T-Mobile (an unlimited voice plan is about $50/mo.) 2. You need a phone that has their UMA feature. (All recent BBerrys, a few others, and most new Androids coming out will have this feature. 3. To make "free" calls, you have to be able to connect to a wifi connection 4. The destination number for free calls has to be a U.S. number. You would be able to dial non-U.S. numbers for as little as 2 cents/min. by making use of Google Voice. Using GV is seamless on virtually all smart phones. Some day (not in my lifetime, I'm too old), there will we world-wide roaming among most cell carriers. I still remember the early days of cellular in the U.S. Every time you went to a new metro area on a trip you would have to register on a new system and often pay $2/day plus 50 cents to $1/min to make calls while you roamed. If you were on a long trip you could pay 3 or 4 of those daily charges per day. It was iffy if callers calls to you came thru. Making outgoing calls, even from your home area, incurred high LD charges. ...mike In the meantime, if you are in one location for any length of time, get a local prepaid. I don't think intl roaming SIMS will ever be solid enuf to appeal to a mainline business user. When a company spends $thousands in salary, airfare, hotel etc. to send someone overseas, the few hundred in roaming charges that may be incurred is a non-issue. Make use of T-M's UMA/wifi free calling from any place in the world with access to wifi. I use an LG G6, wife an S7) A/o Oct 20, 2013 no need for intl prepaid as T-Mobile U.S. includes voice roaming at 20¢/min (in and out)., unlimited text (in and out), and unlimited data in 140+ countries. My Plan -[6 lines] U.S. T-Mobile unlimited minutes (incoming and outgoing), unlimited text, fast data on each line. that $145/mo. total! . (In U.S. no surcharge for calling a cell.) If a line exceeds 2G of data in a month, pay $10 more for that line. [That only happens a couple times/year.