There's something about a 128 kilobit/s throttle abroad.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-576...al-data-texts/
Chief Marketing Officer Mike Sievert said the average speed customers would get would be around 128 kilobits a second.
For $15, a customer gets a single day's worth of high-speed data up to 100 megabytes, while $20 gets one week at 200 megabytes and $50 gets two weeks and 500 megabytes.
Still. You won't be watching HD video over this but even Google Earth only requires 128 kilobit / s, I presume Maps requires less. Checking email even less.