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Barciur
Posts: 245
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Nokia 5300
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T-Mobile USA/Plus GSM |
 
Sun Jun 17, 2007 12:50 pm |
Hi!
I found information that T-Mobile prepaid is not eglible for international roaming. Does anyone know the date of enable intl' roaming for prepaid customers?
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mpapple10
Posts: 1024
Phone Model:
T-Mobile Shadow/HTC Juno
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T-Mobile |
Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:35 am |
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Tmobile is not going to allow prepaid to roam internationally. If you really want that feature, then you will have to go with a post pay account.
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Barciur
Posts: 245
Phone Model:
Nokia 5300
Service Provider:
T-Mobile USA/Plus GSM |
Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:47 pm |
Well. please tell me, how do you know that. It would be really stupid. I travel a lot, and I always buy local prepaid. and what is great, I buy local prepaid (i.e in Poland), I go to Czech Republic and still use it in roaming and I go back to USA and still use it in roaming. Almost all of the europeans networks allow prepaid to roam, because it is worth it (I don't see any problem with charging etc., if other networks dealed with it, why would not T-Mobile do it?).
Other thing that would tell me they are planning to do it is allowing prepaid customers to roam in Canada and Mexico.
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mpapple10
Posts: 1024
Phone Model:
T-Mobile Shadow/HTC Juno
Service Provider:
T-Mobile |
Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:23 am |
| Barciur wrote: | Well. please tell me, how do you know that. It would be really stupid. I travel a lot, and I always buy local prepaid. and what is great, I buy local prepaid (i.e in Poland), I go to Czech Republic and still use it in roaming and I go back to USA and still use it in roaming. Almost all of the europeans networks allow prepaid to roam, because it is worth it (I don't see any problem with charging etc., if other networks dealed with it, why would not T-Mobile do it?).
Other thing that would tell me they are planning to do it is allowing prepaid customers to roam in Canada and Mexico. |
Mexico and Canada are now included in some north american agreement thing that has reduced charges or no charges to use. Europe is another story. In order to roam outside north america, there is an option that you need to add to your account to be able to roam internationally. You also have to pass a credit check to get this option added to your account. This is just how tmobile USA does things, sorry.
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Barciur
Posts: 245
Phone Model:
Nokia 5300
Service Provider:
T-Mobile USA/Plus GSM |
Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:04 pm |
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i can only laugh. it is not how professional network operators do things.
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elmo01
Posts: 2198
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Samsung SPH-M510
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Bell Canada |
Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:43 am |
| Barciur wrote: | | i can only laugh. it is not how professional network operators do things. |
the network carrier saves money and airtime on pre-paid services by not allowing prepaid customers to roam off network. Cingular has the same restriction
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Shalalala
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Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:30 pm |
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I love GSM providers.
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TristanP
Posts: 8 |
Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:39 pm |
| mpapple10 wrote: |
Mexico and Canada are now included in some north american agreement thing that has reduced charges or no charges to use. Europe is another story. In order to roam outside north america, there is an option that you need to add to your account to be able to roam internationally. You also have to pass a credit check to get this option added to your account. This is just how tmobile USA does things, sorry. |
If you are referring to the World Class International Rating Add-On (which is free, by the way), you DO NOt have to pass a credit check to have this feature added on to your account. I'm not sure where you got that kind of information.
As far as using Pre-Paid T-Mobile to roam International, you buy your minutes BEFORE you use them here in the US, where it's a FIXED RATE. Internationally, they have their own rates. We have no way of PREDICTING how many minutes you may use in another country, therefore, we cannot rationally sell you any amount of minutes at THEIR RATE, because there's no way to know.
The smarter thing to do is call T-Mobile Customer Care, have them UNLOCK your phone for use internationally, and buy a PrePaid Phone Card in the airport of whatever country it is you're traveling in. That way, you are buying THEIR FIXED RATE of minutes, and you can use your T-Mobile phone with their prepaid sim card.
When you come back to the US, you switch back to your US Prepaid Sim and your good to go.
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mpapple10
Posts: 1024
Phone Model:
T-Mobile Shadow/HTC Juno
Service Provider:
T-Mobile |
Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:06 am |
| TristanP wrote: | | mpapple10 wrote: |
Mexico and Canada are now included in some north american agreement thing that has reduced charges or no charges to use. Europe is another story. In order to roam outside north america, there is an option that you need to add to your account to be able to roam internationally. You also have to pass a credit check to get this option added to your account. This is just how tmobile USA does things, sorry. |
If you are referring to the World Class International Rating Add-On (which is free, by the way), you DO NOt have to pass a credit check to have this feature added on to your account. I'm not sure where you got that kind of information.
As far as using Pre-Paid T-Mobile to roam International, you buy your minutes BEFORE you use them here in the US, where it's a FIXED RATE. Internationally, they have their own rates. We have no way of PREDICTING how many minutes you may use in another country, therefore, we cannot rationally sell you any amount of minutes at THEIR RATE, because there's no way to know.
The smarter thing to do is call T-Mobile Customer Care, have them UNLOCK your phone for use internationally, and buy a PrePaid Phone Card in the airport of whatever country it is you're traveling in. That way, you are buying THEIR FIXED RATE of minutes, and you can use your T-Mobile phone with their prepaid sim card.
When you come back to the US, you switch back to your US Prepaid Sim and your good to go. |
When I added the feature 2 years ago now, I was on a get more 600 plan and was told I need to have a credit check ran due to some countries having very high roaming fees.
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Factory Reject
Posts: 1 |
Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:37 am |
The T-Mobile prepaid plan web page has a link on it called "Prepaid international roaming rate information".
It looks like it is 99 cents a minute in Europe.
It looks to me on the web site like you can do international roaming with a prepaid plan. I tried to post the links but the Board said I might be a spammer and would not let me. Google "T-Mobile Prepaid International Roaming" to find it.
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