Major carrier rivals AT&T and T-Mobile USA have agreed to share their networks to customers of the other company in areas affected by Hurricane Sandy, namely in New York and New Jersey.
Millions of customers were affected by power outages and flooding after the two day hurricane rolled through the East Coast.
The network roaming agreement calls for no fees or charges to their current ... [ read the full article ]
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I have to wonder about all the customers on T-Mobile who have unlimited free roaming in their contracts...T-Mobile completely disabled roaming for those people a few months ago.
Wow, this seems like a very benevolent thing for these companies to do. Unless I misunderstand, there will be a huge amount of free data given away by at least one carrier. But, regardless of the reasons, this is helpful of them.
Originally posted by KillerBug: I have to wonder about all the customers on T-Mobile who have unlimited free roaming in their contracts...T-Mobile completely disabled roaming for those people a few months ago.
Roaming is still free on T-Mobile. They just say that if you roam excessively now that they will cancel your service and for some people I know, they've also charged the ETF for this.
Quote:Wow, this seems like a very benevolent thing for these companies to do. Unless I misunderstand, there will be a huge amount of free data given away by at least one carrier. But, regardless of the reasons, this is helpful of them.
Be that as it may, data transferring cost pennies - dimes for these carriers and there's no "more" data going through a portable device when roaming, comparing to when you don't, it's the exact same; so at the end it costs neither company anything except profit loss otherwise generated through roaming charges.
Originally posted by KillerBug: I have to wonder about all the customers on T-Mobile who have unlimited free roaming in their contracts...T-Mobile completely disabled roaming for those people a few months ago.
Roaming is still free on T-Mobile. They just say that if you roam excessively now that they will cancel your service and for some people I know, they've also charged the ETF for this.
I have T-Mo & cross the border very often. 1 mille into Mexico and the phone start roaming and I get charge if I use the service :(
Originally posted by KillerBug: I have to wonder about all the customers on T-Mobile who have unlimited free roaming in their contracts...T-Mobile completely disabled roaming for those people a few months ago.
Roaming is still free on T-Mobile. They just say that if you roam excessively now that they will cancel your service and for some people I know, they've also charged the ETF for this.
I have T-Mo & cross the border very often. 1 mille into Mexico and the phone start roaming and I get charge if I use the service :(
its simple charge the people your sneaking back over the border extra money and you'll cover the roaming charges
