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AT&T Offering Day Pass For International Travelers (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the somewhat-good-news dept.

Starting Friday, AT&T customers who travel abroad can sign up for a new International Day Pass plan. Instead of paying by the minute, message or megabyte, the plan lets you pay a $10-a-day flat free so you can talk and text "all you want" and also access your data plan as though you're in the states. From a report: AT&T said the new plan is available for customers traveling to more than 100 countries listed here. To use the new plan, customers just need to add it once and it will automatically kick in each time they travel to a supported country, until it's removed.

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  1. competition by magarity · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ain't competition great - T-Mobile has been including this in for no extra per day cost for a while now.

    1. Re:competition by whoever57 · · Score: 3, Informative

      To be accurate, T-Mobile doesn't include calls in their plan, but there are options: 1. Connect to a WiFi hotspot and use T-Mobile's VOIP capability ("WiFi calling"), 2. Use any other VOIP app (WhatApp, Skype, Vonage Extensions, etc.) to call using only data.

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    2. Re:competition by GabeGhearing · · Score: 3, Informative
      Nope it's actually free in Canada with T-Mobile ONE (the normal package)
      • - Canada/Mexico roaming is treated the same as US, so Calls/Data/Text are unlimited.
      • - Data/Texting is free world-wide.

      https://www.t-mobile.com/optio...

      I've used it in Italy, France, Ireland, and China. Works pretty well, but official tethering is a crapshoot depending on what network you are roaming on (China/Italy worked, in Ireland/France couldn't get official tethering to work).

  2. Re:Overpriced by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    > regular international rates

    Which are just ridiculous. I live in Seattle, and when I go to Canada I get charged $19.97 per MByte by AT&T. The last trip I made the mistake of downloading a 10 MB PDF email attachment and was charged about $200 for it.

  3. Re: Local simcard by corychristison · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm Canadian. The last time I was in the US I bought a prepaid SIM from Roam Mobility.

    Cost $5 (CAD) per day while in the US. You preload it by setting which days you expect to be in the US, and prepay for it prior to your trip.

    Each day added 1GB of data to the "pool" of usable Data while traveling + unlimited calling and sms/mms.

    I was in the US for 6 days, so it cost me $30 and gave me 6GB of Data. The area I was in had LTE, so it was actually quite useful.

    It's not the cheapest, but one of the better deals available without too much hassle. My carrier offers the same thing as AT&T, but for Canadians travelling to the US. Cost is also $10/day. Activate it by sending a text message to a special number.

    I suspect they prey on people who don't buy unlocked devices, or know how to unlock their devices, essentially forcing their clients to have to pay those prices.

  4. Re: Overpriced by muffen · · Score: 3, Informative

    He was getting prepaid cards, where there tends to be an extra fee for the card itself, can't compare that to a subscription.

    In general though, I find connectivity in the US to be expensive. I pay $55 for uncapped 1000/1000mbit fiber to my home, and about the same for my mobile connection, which has a 40GB data limit, and free calls and text,and I can use it in 47 countries right now without any additional charge, the US included.