Sprint said it has cut a roaming agreement with Telecommunications Company of Cuba (ETECSA). Sprint is the first U.S. carrier to sign such an agreement, which will allow Sprint customers to roam on ETESCA’s network when traveling to Cuba. Sprint said roaming rates for voice, messaging, and data will be announced later. Sprint didn’t say […]
U.S. Cellular recently revealed that it has forged its first LTE roaming partnership, and customers will reap the benefits in two to three months. U.S. Cellular did not name its roaming partner, and said the deal is still in the engineering phase, but in all likelihood the partner is a Tier 1 carrier. This means […]
Cricket Wireless today upgraded its $50 and $60 monthly plans to include unlimited international calling and messaging to Canada. Customers won’t have to take any steps to activate the feature, Cricket is doing so automatically for all new and existing subscribers. The Canada calling plan is being offered at no additional charge. Cricket added free […]
Republic Wireless recently unveiled a change in policy regarding roaming. The company, citing high costs for its customers to roam onto the wireless networks of competing carriers, will reduce the amount of roaming data allowed each customer to just 25MB per month. Further, the company will throttle back the speeds available to customers when they […]
AT&T today announced that it has forged an LTE roaming agreement with Rogers, a wireless network operator in Canada. The deal gives AT&T’s customers access to Rogers’ LTE network when they travel to Canada. According to AT&T, Rogers offers LTE service to 70% of Canadians, and plans to deploy LTE in 95 new markets this […]
T-Mobile has announced that all Simple Choice individual and business customers will automatically have access to unlimited mobile data and unlimited messaging when they travel out of the U.S. — for free. The free data and messaging will be available in more than 100 different countries around the world. Some of the countries include all […]
With US-based students and teachers participating in overseas educational programs in mind, AT&T has introduced the AT&T Study Abroad program, an international roaming package tailored for the student’s specific needs. Starting August 9, the program allows the user to keep existing phone numbers, and offers students and teachers the convenience of having an existing AT&T […]
A drop in roaming charges mandated by the European Commission has taken place today, lowering prices for Europeans traveling within the continent. The new rules cut the maximum price EU-based carriers can charge their customers per megabyte of data transfer from 70 euro cents ($0.91) down to 45 cents ($0.59), with a further drop scheduled […]
The European Union continues its battle against high operators and their high roaming rates. The new measures, headed up by German politician Angelika Niebler, are calling for even steeper reductions, Reuters found. Compared to the reductions outlined last year by European Commissioner Neelie Kroes, who called for a one-minute call costing 24 cents when abroad […]
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