T-Mobile Plans Now Include Unlimited Roaming in Canada and Mexico
If you're a T-Mobile Simple Choice customer, you are now free to roam about the continent. Beginning July 15, T-Mobile is extending coverage and calling across the US, Mexico and Canada for all Simple Choice customers at no extra charge, according to the latest "Un-carrier Amped" announcement from the company.
This new move, called Mobile Without Borders, includes unlimited calling to Mexico and Canada from the US for free, including landlines and cell phones. Customers also have 4G LTE data and unlimited calling and texting when in Mexico and Canada, just like in the US.
This is in addition to T-Mobile offering unlimited international data (and text messages) in over 120 countries, as reviewed by TPG Editor Zach Honig this past May. At the time, Zach noted that as far as the carriers (and data roaming) are concerned, Canada might as well be Cambodia. Looks like it's time to head back up north, Zach!
Current Simple Choice customers need to opt-in online, by phone or in-store by switching to the latest plans (at no charge). Business customers can also add coverage and calling across North America to their Simple Choice plan at no extra cost for the first 10 lines, and $1 per month per line beyond that.
According to T-Mobile, and unusual for a company to say outright, customers have been getting raked over the coals with roaming fees:
Over 70% of international trips taken by small and mid-sized business travelers were to Mexico & Canada. And, the same year, the carriers raked in nearly $10 billion in global roaming charges at over 90% margins. Meaning the carriers are lining their pockets with billions of dollars in inflated roaming fees—for coverage the Un-carrier now includes at no extra cost.
The company is pretty excited about Mobile Without Borders, if John Legere, president and CEO, is any indication:
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