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Originally Posted by Przemolog

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But when you call a non-US mobile phone roaming in the USA, you pay the rate to the mobile phone in its "home country" and the receiving party pays the cost of forwarding the call to the US and the cost of receiving the call in the US mobile network. I think that "mobile termination charges" means the money you pay for receiving calls due to RPP rules....

Do US operators charge roaming SIMs for receiving calls much more than US SIMs?

I can't see any other explanation for the current pricing...

When someone in Germany calls my German mobile and I am roaming in the US, the caller pays for his "national" call, regular rate. Caller does not care where I am. Since I am roaming in US, my home provider is charged with a fee to forward the call to the US. That portion has a minimal charge. Since the network interconnect inside US is provided by ATT mobile or TMO, they want to be paid for their service. High fees result from

1) high fees demanded by US companies on receiving end
2) high fees imposed by home provider trying to pad the bottom line

AFAIK, the 2 US GSM carriers with which I am familiar, do not GENERALLY charge roaming fees for US SIMS. This may not be true for other technologies present in US. I had Suncom REGIONAL CDMA and was dinged a hefty roaming fee once when I made a call while I was out-of-region. I think that was like 99 cents per minute. Long time ago.

I think the answer to your second question in line with my answer 1 above is YES!

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