I agree. I'm currently roaming in Jamaica. I set my phone to unconditionally forward all calls directly to voicemail to avoid tmo's outrageous roaming charges and activated the $20 unlimited international blackberry service so I'm still connected in that way. I've gotten a prepaid sim here for about $5. Calls from here back to the states on it are about $0.25 a min which is much better than tmo's world class $1.50 per min.
~Craig -----Original Message----- From: "Ramon Kolb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:02:02 To:[email protected] Subject: Re: [T-Mobile-US] Prepaid roaming I'm glad to see that even T-Mobile (US) says that roaming charges can be "quite high" :). I mean that in an absolute sense, since int'l roaming charges are about the same ("quite high") for most US carriers. I hear that in Europe, the EU has been putting the mobile carriers on notice for charging "unreasonable roaming charges", after which several of them "voluntary" lowered them substantially. I guess that would never happen here in the US, where collusion among big business is considered to be a "good thing" by those in power. But alas, let's not get political... I can tell you from experience that T-Mobile prepaid SIMs don't work in Europe (Netherlands, UK, Germany, Belgium, France, Spain) or in South America (Venezuela, Peru). So I assume that their statement is true... The cheapest way to call you is definitely to buy a local pre-paid SIM and have people call you from the US at that SIM; even calling international using a local prepaid SIM abroad is generally equal or cheaper than paying t-mobile roaming charges, but that really depends on the deal you get locally. --Ramon On 12/26/06, Rainer Schips <rechnerin2007@: <mailto:rechnerin2007%40freenet.de> freenet.de> wrote: > > Hello and happy holidays! > I got the following form T-Mobile. > Has nobody tried it yet?? > > Dear Rainer, > > Thank your for contacting T-Mobile. From what we understand is you > would like information on roaming internationally as a prepaid > customer. We are more than happy to provide this ifnromation for you. > > At this time, T-Mobile to go customers can only roam in Canada and > Mexico. Full pledged international roaming is not possible for our > prepaid customers and is a feature available to our post paid > subscribers and the international toll rates can be quite high. > > If you have more questions or concerns, please feel free to contact > us at anytime or by calling us at 1-800-937-8997. > > Thank you for choosing T-Mobile, we appreciate your business. Have a > great day! > > Sincerely, > > Frank > 2745822 > Technical Care Specialist > T-Mobile USA > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] - - T-Mobile-US on Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/T-Mobile-US _ _ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/T-Mobile-US/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/T-Mobile-US/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
