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snaimon · 24-06-2006, 01:20

Here a ref to HOFO:

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php...05&page=5&pp=15

One poster writes:

".....Roaming minutes are manually loaded into the billing system using TAP files that may takes weeks to arrive from the roaming partner. By the time the information reaches the billing system, the charges will have already been incurred."

I don't work for T-Mo and cannot verify what was said. TO DATE nobody has contradicted the post.

Since roaming is quite common in EU countries, I think they have it down fairly well. Roaming on T-MO basically costs nothing within the US; it just deducts from your usual minutes, either post pay or prepay. I have not used the phone overseas with my postpay T-MO SIM in it and don't plan to, so I do not know how quickly the minutes come. APPARENTLY, the OP of the thread arrived back from Jamaica and was startled by his bill of > $2000. He had used 1000 minutes while roaming in Jamaica. He was told by a CSR that the rate was $1.09 per minute.

That is all for now.

Stan

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snaimon (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Specialist Posts: 898 Join Date: 17 Mar 2004 Location: Richmond, VA USA Country:	24-06-2006, 01:20 Here a ref to HOFO: http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php...05&page=5&pp=15 One poster writes: ".....Roaming minutes are manually loaded into the billing system using TAP files that may takes weeks to arrive from the roaming partner. By the time the information reaches the billing system, the charges will have already been incurred." I don't work for T-Mo and cannot verify what was said. TO DATE nobody has contradicted the post. Since roaming is quite common in EU countries, I think they have it down fairly well. Roaming on T-MO basically costs nothing within the US; it just deducts from your usual minutes, either post pay or prepay. I have not used the phone overseas with my postpay T-MO SIM in it and don't plan to, so I do not know how quickly the minutes come. APPARENTLY, the OP of the thread arrived back from Jamaica and was startled by his bill of > $2000. He had used 1000 minutes while roaming in Jamaica. He was told by a CSR that the rate was $1.09 per minute. That is all for now. Stan Phones: DASH V3 (3) Service: US T-MO post paid (2) - US T-MO prepaid (2) - UM+ - TravelSIM DE SIMYO - DE SUNSIM T-Mobile DE Calling Cards: Onesuite Enjoyprepaid AT&T MCI Mobivox