Originally Posted by
TwinkL
I read on another travel forum, forget which one, that some people have experienced slower data speeds with TMo Simple Choice global roaming than they did when it was first rolled out. Can anyone speak to this issue with firsthand experience in the last couple of months?
Since the data gets tunneled back to T-Mobile USA for throttling, I can see how this would be the case. As more frequent international travelers switch to T-Mobile, and as more existing T-Mobile subscribers become aware of the free data, usage will go up. There are bound to be some locations where the bandwidth between the remote carrier and T-Mobile USA exceeds the aggregate of all of the T-Mobile USA data roamers on that carrier at the moment x 128kbps, in which case the effective data rate will be lower.