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TL;DR T-Mobile subscribers can roam internationally while paying $0.25 a minute for voice calls.
Some subscribers now report receiving notices that rates are going up to $0.50 a minute.
The new pricing is supposed to go into effect on June 25.
When you’re travelling internationally, and want to make sure your phone will keep you connected, you basically have two options: temporarily get yourself an international SIM (or eSIM), or rely upon your existing carrier’s international roaming support. While that latter option might involve making the least effort, it can also prove surprisingly expensive — and it’s only getting more so for T-Mobile users.
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Right now, T-Mobile’s international roaming offers unlimited texting, and varying levels of high-speed data (depending on your plan), but voice calls are pay-as-you-go, and billed at a rate of $0.25 a minute.
Over on Reddit’s T-Mobile sub, though, a subscriber shares the message they’ve received from the carrier, warning them that their international call rates are just about to double:
Another Redditor chimes in down in the comments, confirming that they’ve also received a similar notice upon arriving in Italy. It appears that T-Mobile may have only just recently started notifying users of this change, as those who traveled just a few days earlier didn’t get any message like this.
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