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T-Mobile is sending text messages to subscribers announcing a price increase from $0.20/minute to $0.25/minute for roaming calls from counties covered under its T-Mobile One/Simple Choice plans. The rate increase takes effect on the first new billing cycle from July 31, 2018.

154 to 210+ Countries and Destinations

The announcement mentions this rate will apply to an expanded number of countries and destinations covered under Simple Global Calling, jumping from 154 to 210+ on July 22, 2018.

There is no mention of unlimited text and 2G data being included in these new countries, a bit I think they would want to highlight rather over a rate increase. Press announcements usually focus on the good stuff. The use of a term, Simple Global Calling, instead of the current plan names T-Mobile ONE and Simple Choice used on their roaming page, gave me pause.

I contacted T-Mobile Media Relations, who replied within minutes, “The expanded list of countries is the new list of Simple Global countries, so yes, they get the same benefits.”

Awesome!

Here is the new list of countries. I could have really used these in some that are painfully expensive. Nauru comes to mind. Or for all my Virgin Australia flight issues in Christmas Island.

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