Originally Posted by Dubai Stu

I used the words that there "was a dispute about" whether TMobile charged for this to avoid the dispute, but I am the disputer. On my wife's Blackberry (on which I was the responsible account holder) we were charged $600 for use non-email data services in Dubai in March. I won the point on a lawyerly argument (her principle data draw was from Astrasync which is a third party mail client for the Blackberry and hence "mail" as defined in the contract), but quickly bolted. BB Messenger was included on the included side and they didn't appear to be able to sort out what was happening on the BES side.

We are not casual travellers. My wife has been worked outside the U.S. close to 100 days this year. (I've been out about half that time period) She used to use TMobile Blackberry International without incident. I've read people who were not billed, but I believe it deals with whether the carrier they are roaming on's system passes back the appropriate data.

Here is a link to an older thread on this forum on the same topic:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...ta-plan-2.html