Originally Posted by
Fredd
I'll add a reminder from the problem I outlined up-thread. I thought I was safe on hotel wifi in the Maldives (a country not on the list) when I saw T-Mobile wifi displayed on the phone.
However, T-Mobile charged me as if I were using the Maldivian system. They kindly refunded my several-hundred dollar bill and confirmed that the way around that issue would be to use Skype or some similar calling program on wifi when in "outlier" countries.
A quick FWIW on the chance it's useful info for anybody.
I'm new to T-Mobile so this is interesting to me. As I understand it, once you're on Wi-Fi and using "T-Mobile WiFi", it's as if you're in the US. Did you get charged for calling back to the US? That should've come out of your domestic calling minutes.
If you called a local Maldivian number, then yes, it should've been as if you called from the US to the Maldives.