Starting Oct. 31, T-Mobile customers with its Simple Choice plans will be able to send text messages and access data for free in about 100 countries. They can also make calls for 20¢ per minute. T-Mobile says that an AT&T (T) customer who would run up $1,500 for a mix of calls, data use, and texting in Europe would spend only $6.40 on T-Mobile. (While AT&T customers could cut that bill way, way down by signing up for temporary international plans, it would still be much more than T-Mobile’s deal.) T-Mobile is also offering discounted calling and texting from the U.S. to those countries for $10 a month.
This may be the Godsend I've been waiting for, can finally stop fussing with changing sims on my travels. Biggest kink though--may be that Web is locked down to standard speeds of approximately 128Kbps. The carrier you're roaming on can then throttle that even lower if they wish, you just don't know. I wonder if 128 is fast enough for browsing this website quickly, for instance.
EDIT: On second thought, 2G is very slow...too slow for maps in my experience. Damn, there's always something...
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