All email and browsing on the BB is data and is not billed like an SMS. So
your roaming will be the standard roaming data rate which I think is
currently $0.10/kb. So everytime your BB even checks mail it's
sending/receiving data which would be charged at that rate.

Incoming SMS come out of your bucket or are $0.05 each like they are here in
the US. Sending is $0.35/SMS.

Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 3:56 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [T-Mobile-US] Blackberry charges when using International Roaming

I've been all over the T-mobile site and can't for the life of me figure out
how the biling works for my Blackberry e-mail when I'm using International
Roaming.

The phone calls seem straightforward, and work at the same $0.99 per minute
rate as regular cell phones.

The problem is with bb e-mail. My US plan allows for unlimited downloads of
e-mail, and I probably get a 3-4 hundred or more messages per day.  The BB
is set to check for mail every 15 minutes and to then download any new
messages onto the BB.  When roaming internationally, does each message count
as a text message at $0.05 a pop (ouch) or are these counted as something
else. I'd love to take the BB with me instead of my laptop and to depend on
bb mail for my e-mail but am worried about the cost of doing so. Any
information or tips would be appreciated.

Sorry if this question has an obvious answer, but I can't find it on the
T-mobile site.




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