Originally Posted by
Flying Machine
I agree with your synopsis, it’s typically not after one billing cycle ( I haven’t heard of that ) it has to be habitual
Pre-Covid, I was overseas twice a month for work. I never used much data domestic OR overseas... always less than 5GB total per month (domestic + international). The instance I talked about may have been after several months of a higher roaming rate than domestic...which is possible. But I was PISSED as I explicitly bought a 15GB roaming bucket for an extra $50/month and still got nastygrams when my actual total data usage over the period of the year was on average <1GB/month with a high of 5GB in a single month. The month I got the nastygram I has only used 110mb overseas.
But I agree with the other poster, it seems the workaround is just artificially running up domestic data.
Originally Posted by
Need
It doesn't have to be "higher" just high ratio. I switched to T-mobile just after black Friday promotion in 2018. After X'mas 2018, we went on a trip to Europe for 2 weeks. I don't remember how much data we used but it can't more than what we used in the US in most of December and January. All the phones got the threatening text messages about abusing data thing. That's the only time we got it though. We spent 1 week in Mexico after that and did not get that message.
From what I gather from the reddit /r/T-Mobile sub is that the ratio seems to be a simple 50%. If your roaming is over 50% roaming for x number of cycles you get threatened or cut off. This makes sense in the context of their "free" roaming... but needs to be made more lenient for people who explicitly buy their international data buckets and don't get anywhere near actually using all of the data they've purchased.
Anyway, for me it is now a moot point. I since that incident went back to FI... then subsequently to AT&T. For my upcoming UK trip, I'll actually avoid US carrier data by just plain getting an Airalo eSim for my high-speed data needs.