{"id":4390,"date":"2013-11-24T22:47:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T22:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fabricegrinda.com\/?p=4390"},"modified":"2021-05-29T07:04:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T07:04:07","slug":"if-you-travel-internationally-switch-to-t-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/if-you-travel-internationally-switch-to-t-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"If you travel internationally switch to T-Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was an AT&amp;T Wireless customers for years. They had worse reception in New York than Verizon but significantly better global roaming agreements. Given that I spend most of the year on the road, international coverage is essential for me. AT&amp;T also has somewhat faster LTE speeds than Verizon in the US so I could not complain.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite maxing out on all international voice and data packages, my phone bill routinely exceeded $1,500 and was never below $1,000. Since I switched to T-Mobile, my bill has never exceeded $200 and is usually significantly cheaper than that.<\/p>\n<p>T-Mobile\u2019s Simple Choice plans cost $50-$70 depending on how much US data you need (500Mb for $50, 2.5Gb for $60, and unlimited for $70). You also get unlimited voice and texting in the US. More importantly on all those plans you get:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unlimited international text messages<\/li>\n<li>Unlimited international 2G data (typically Edge)<\/li>\n<li>Voice calls for $0.20 \/ minute while roaming internationally<\/li>\n<li>500Mb of high speed data for 2 weeks for $50<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This works in most countries around the world including India, Pakistan, all of Europe and the Dominican Republic. The only country I travel to that is not covered is The Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>If like me you find yourself in far-flung places T-Mobile is the way to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was an AT&amp;T Wireless customers for years. They had worse reception in New York than Verizon but significantly better global roaming agreements. Given that I spend most of the &hellip; <a href=\"\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8222;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets"],"acf":[],"contentUpdated":"If you travel internationally switch to T-Mobile. Categories - Tech Gadgets. Date-Posted - 2013-11-24T22:47:11 . I was an AT&amp;T Wireless customers for years. They had worse reception in New York than Verizon but significantly better global roaming agreements. Given that I spend most of the year on the road, international coverage is essential for me. AT&amp;T also has somewhat faster LTE speeds than Verizon in the US so I could not complain.\n However, despite maxing out on all international voice and data packages, my phone bill routinely exceeded $1,500 and was never below $1,000. Since I switched to T-Mobile, my bill has never exceeded $200 and is usually significantly cheaper than that.\n T-Mobile\u2019s Simple Choice plans cost $50-$70 depending on how much US data you need (500Mb for $50, 2.5Gb for $60, and unlimited for $70). You also get unlimited voice and texting in the US. More importantly on all those plans you get:\n Unlimited international text messages\n Unlimited international 2G data (typically Edge)\n Voice calls for $0.20 \/ minute while roaming internationally\n 500Mb of high speed data for 2 weeks for $50\n This works in most countries around the world including India, Pakistan, all of Europe and the Dominican Republic. The only country I travel to that is not covered is The Bahamas.\n If like me you find yourself in far-flung places T-Mobile is the way to go.\n ","Category":["Tech Gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12108,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions\/12108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}