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Bossman · 30-08-2014, 02:45

A lot of them will not survive. That has been happening over the last few years, especially with the EU regulating roaming rates. There used to be a whole lot of international sim carriers. That has dwindled significantly over the last few years.

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Originally Posted by Sophia

I wonder how all these companies are going to fare when countries finally bring their roaming fees down. We already see it with Wind in Canada, who offers very generous roaming in the US for less than $40. I hope other carriers follow, not only in Canada but everywhere

Stu · 02-09-2014, 04:05

Wind is offering its US roaming to prove a point. They were lobbying the Harper administration and Parliament to force RoBelUs to give them reasonable roaming rates. They wanted to use the US to show what was possible.

Verizon and ATT in the US currently offer 1,000 minutes of Mexican/Canadian roaming for $15. Border countries are a little easier.

snidely · 02-09-2014, 04:14

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Originally Posted by Stu

Wind is offering its US roaming to prove a point. They were lobbying the Harper administration and Parliament to force RoBelUs to give them reasonable roaming rates. They wanted to use the US to show what was possible.

Verizon and ATT in the US currently offer 1,000 minutes of Mexican/Canadian roaming for $15. Border countries are a little easier.

And, of course, TMobile U.S., offers roamers in Canada unlimited text and data (data at 120-130Kbps) and 20¢/min. voice to both Canada and U.S. (and 100+ other countries).

Stu · 04-09-2014, 12:27

TMobile USA's plan is great. I am grandfathered on a very old ATT plan which gives me unlimited international data (high speed) in every country they have roaming with. If they ever pull it, I will get TMobile.

Because of this, I use a roaming SIM for voice where VOIP Over HSPA (or wifi) isn't possible. Even then, I usually trigger a callback to the roaming SIM. This means in most places, a call is somewhere around 8 cents a minute. Since ATT has shuttered the plan, it didn't make much sense talking about it.

TMobile USA also has an "Open Europe" plan which gives you included high speed data and calling throughout the EU, Switzerland, Norway, and Russia. It gives you 500 megs of high speed data in the EU and then 2g plus a bucket of minutes. It doesn't make a ton of sense to me. I would probably just buy the bucket of high speed data for the TMobile Simply Calling plan if I needed it.

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Stu (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Guru Posts: 1,091 Join Date: 11 Feb 2004 Location: Detroit (formerly Dubai) Country:	02-09-2014, 04:05 Wind is offering its US roaming to prove a point. They were lobbying the Harper administration and Parliament to force RoBelUs to give them reasonable roaming rates. They wanted to use the US to show what was possible. Verizon and ATT in the US currently offer 1,000 minutes of Mexican/Canadian roaming for $15. Border countries are a little easier.

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Stu (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Guru Posts: 1,091 Join Date: 11 Feb 2004 Location: Detroit (formerly Dubai) Country:	04-09-2014, 12:27 TMobile USA's plan is great. I am grandfathered on a very old ATT plan which gives me unlimited international data (high speed) in every country they have roaming with. If they ever pull it, I will get TMobile. Because of this, I use a roaming SIM for voice where VOIP Over HSPA (or wifi) isn't possible. Even then, I usually trigger a callback to the roaming SIM. This means in most places, a call is somewhere around 8 cents a minute. Since ATT has shuttered the plan, it didn't make much sense talking about it. TMobile USA also has an "Open Europe" plan which gives you included high speed data and calling throughout the EU, Switzerland, Norway, and Russia. It gives you 500 megs of high speed data in the EU and then 2g plus a bucket of minutes. It doesn't make a ton of sense to me. I would probably just buy the bucket of high speed data for the TMobile Simply Calling plan if I needed it.