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Old Jun 27, 2013 | 4:39 pm
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Originally Posted by unmesh
Are you saying that one can make calls back to the US from overseas as if they were local calls if you can hop onto a WiFi network?


What about traveling in Japan? My understanding was they do not use GSM but rather WCDMA @2100MHz even for voice
1 Exactly, UMA calls deduct from your bucket of Tmobile minutes. No extra LD charges.

2 It has nothing to do with the cell network in that country, only the wifi access. I have not used UMA in Japan and others may want to chime in.

Even better, when overseas I turn on Tmobile's unlimited international Blackberry service and forward all calls unconditionally to my google voice number which (sometimes comically) transcribes the voicemail and sends it to email.

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