T-Mobile is doing away with those often outrageous international fees that consumers can rack up when traveling in Mexico or Canada.
Typically, if you don’t turn off smartphone updates or dare make a call when traveling within these adjacent countries, T-Mobile charged $15 a megabyte, $0.50 per text and $1.79 per minute. T-Mobile “rates jump an insane 120x or more when you leave the U.S.”
Those added fees vanish July 15 for T-Mobile Simple Choice customers. While there will no longer be an extra fee to use data while in Mexico or Canada, any data used is subtracted from existing plans — just like it would be when used in the United States. Simple Choice plans start at $50 a month for unlimited talk, text and 1 GB of data.
For Comcast, customers can now call India, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Mexico at no additional charge. Xfinity Voice costs $20 a month as a standalone service, but may require a $29.95 activation fee. Customers can already call Canada, Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa on that $20 plan.
