T-Mobile Makes It Free to Roam In Canada and Mexico
How can they do this?
T-mobile is going to pay for their customers to roam in Mexico and Canada?
How can they do this?
How can they do this?
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Most of the cost of roaming charges is paid to the carriers, its like overages or activation fees, a false charge they invented to make more profit.
It doesnt really cost any more for your T-Mo phone to use a GSM carrier in Canada lets say, all they have to do is add the roaming carriers MCC and MNC to their acronym I cant remember (hlr?) and its now a native device on their network, assuming some bands match.
The main problem is in accounting, the overseas network cant (or didnt used to be able to) access your rate plan, which is why roaming charges often show up later on your bill. Carriers were worried subs would use minutes they weren't going to get paid for.
Im guessing thats what T-mo did, paid their roam partner a chunk of money...
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It doesnt really cost any more for your T-Mo phone to use a GSM carrier in Canada lets say, all they have to do is add the roaming carriers MCC and MNC to their acronym I cant remember (hlr?) and its now a native device on their network, assuming some bands match.
The main problem is in accounting, the overseas network cant (or didnt used to be able to) access your rate plan, which is why roaming charges often show up later on your bill. Carriers were worried subs would use minutes they weren't going to get paid for.
Im guessing thats what T-mo did, paid their roam partner a chunk of money...
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Add to it some mutual roaming agreement with the two other nations to off balance any monies paid out.
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Absolutely right. I don't know about Mexico, but certainly in Canada they had to pay Rogers a substantial amount of money. Rogers is like the Verizon of Canada, they have the best service in most areas, and they don't care if you think they have high prices.
Rogers is T-Mobile's LTE roaming partner in Canada, and the most expensive carrier in Canada by far. I can only imagine how much T-Mobile paid them to forge this agreement. Rogers broadcasts DC-HSPA+ 850/1900, and LTE AWS/2600/700 (band 17 or paired bands 12/13, not sure), so as you can see they are absolutely loaded with spectrum.
Rogers is T-Mobile's LTE roaming partner in Canada, and the most expensive carrier in Canada by far. I can only imagine how much T-Mobile paid them to forge this agreement. Rogers broadcasts DC-HSPA+ 850/1900, and LTE AWS/2600/700 (band 17 or paired bands 12/13, not sure), so as you can see they are absolutely loaded with spectrum.
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