Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Menlo Park, CA, USA
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I still think a global roaming phone plane from a unified/partnered telco is STILL about 4-5 years off. And AT&T/t-mobile tie up would have probably accelerated that a bit, but even vodaphone/verizon isn't doing anything to help it out. I think it is just too lucrative to bill people a ton of money for calls and DATA when roaming internationally.
At best, we'll probably get a domestic/international plan, with about 15-20$ monthly kicker (on a 24 month program) and say bundled 50-100 minutes of international use and say 100MB of monthly international use. you pay for it year round, but CAN use it while travelling.