In airport in Taipei using the Simple Choice int'l data roaming.

Phone camped on Chunghwa. Data indicator shows 3G/H/H+. Speeds are clearly throttled but it does work. I agree with a previous poster that throttled HSPA is far better than being limited to a physical 2G connection... This is pretty damned awesome.

Upon registering on the network I got 3 texts welcoming me to Taiwan and summarizing usage costs. Nice touch, though the data pack link doesn't work right, so still some kinks to work out. I'm not sure how I could actually buy a data pack... calling back to TMO is a pain.

Phones are TMO-branded Lumia 925, and open-market Lumia 920.

Thailand up next.

Thanks for the info! I'm looking forward to your Thailand update as I will be spending some time there fairly soon.

FWIW, I had no problems at all recently in Panama or Colombia. Pretty awes:cool:me is right!

Question for those who have used the throttled data. was it sufficient /adequate?

I read the first few pages of the thread and the last few but couldn't find any comments about: do we need to be on T-Mobiles network to enjoy this new freedom? I just landed in the UK today and from my current location I can see: O2, Vodaphone, EE, 3 and I occasionally see t-mobile...so will I get nailed (with roaming fees) unless I lock on to t-mobiles network?

TMobile's press announcement said that if your local network wasn't included in their global roaming solution, by default you would not get data and that you had to text something to override that.

No need to be on T-Mobile. in most of the 100+listed countries, T-Mobile is not even present.
Let your phone pick whatever network it wants and you'll be fine.

Eager to hear any report on data access/performance in Japan - site says 3G networks, throttled data on 3G/HSPA makes sense as I don't think they even had 2G/Edge networks in Japan.

In the UK I think EE is T-Mobile, but I don't think you have to be on that network to take advantage of the free global roaming. My guess is on some networks you will or will not get a data signal due to the state of a roaming agreement.

Do report back!

http://www.t-mobile.com/Internationa..._RoamWorldwide

For the UK, you can use EE, Hutchinson (3), and Vodaphone.

T Mobile Global data coverage
 

My colleagues is currently in Bangkok and he said his handset (Nexus 4) registered with DTAC and oddly he was getting 128kbps DOWN, but almost 2.3Mbps UP.

Not sure why he was seeing such high upload speeds, maybe something was screwey with DTAC or T-Mobile did something wrong.

Dan

Or maybe T-Mobile is only capping speeds downstream? can anyone confirm with speedtests what is it you are getting?

128K up & down at one place north of London (Biggleswade), outside the M25
and 40K up/20K near Luton.

I'd love to hear some ping time. Fast throttled bandwith is different than EDGE.

well just bought a SIM for a day trip to Toronto & will use it in Santiago and Sicily later this month. will tack on a $10 plan for my wife's Nexus 7 for the latter two. want to see if it's functional enough to blow off chasing down SIMs abroad.