Thank you for confirming. I will report back after my trip in Dec.

How much are you guys paying for your Simple Choice plan?

How bad are the speeds after you hit your LTE cap? I mean speeds in the US after you reach 1 GB, 3 GB or whatever the LTE cap is for the plan you get.

Rates are here:

http://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-p...ndividual.html

Assume state taxes can affect your final price.

Family plans are a good deal as line 3 and after the charges are minimal
http://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans/family.html

Will slow down to 2G performance (128Kb/sec) but you are also local on T-Mobile's network when domestic so you take a hit but still usable for non Video use cases; app downloads will be slow.

http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-2741

How much are you guys paying for your Simple Choice plan?

The most basic Simple Choice Plan is $50. See the links a previous poster had posted. That's only for 1gb, but you get unlimited Pandora + spotify 4G (thank goodness, I listen to Pandora during my commute).

How bad are the speeds after you hit your LTE cap? I mean speeds in the US after you reach 1 GB, 3 GB or whatever the LTE cap is for the plan you get.

I say speeds are pretty bad. I forgot how SLOOOW 2G speed is, and I went over my limit this month. It's soooo slow I don't even want to use it, but not that bad of a deal since I have wifi at home/work (just not in between). (I got it in the first place due to international calling, which has been the greatest thing EVER and I still think is the greatest asset for Tmobile). But coming off an UNLIMITED LTE Sprint plan and hitting the cap this month makes me miss Sprint quite a bit (but not to the point I want to renew with them again unless I have to).

I should careful not to wipe out my monthly usage so quickly. They do offer option to buy up another gb for $10 with the data pass. Eh. These add up very quickly.

my speedtest in Taipei, Taiwan. Roaming was fine and as soon as we landed, the text came welcoming us to Taipei on T-Mobile roaming. So far I've been able to make a clear voip call through an messenger app called LINE.

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I pay $80/month, exclusive of insurance/JUMP/whatever [those added extras that don't pertain to actual service plan].

As for post-LTE cap....I couldn't tell when I was in France that I hit the cap, other than a text stating I had.

Honestly, service was completely legit the whole trip. Oddly, my Google Maps worked for the first time all week AFTER I hit my cap :confused:

Does the vonage app still work well over data when making calls back to the US?

Its really slow. I just had to go through it for two weeks. I'm so glad LTE speeds are back!

Should work; may go to lower bit rate quality. Your mileage may vary as the roaming network quality is also a factor in this.

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I used it in Israel and it worked perfectly to make calls to the U.S.

Quick summary of my experience for the past year:
Have had a tmo line just for the roaming/ streaming netflix on the go in the states for the past year.
Has worked great for me in the UK, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Trinidad, and France. Each time I had reasonable speed- could stream music in ideal conditions, but it was sufficient enough for emails, reading articles, etc. It was good enough I could use at least 1.5GBs a week in data.
Haven't bothered to try anything like a vonage app, since I just pony up the 20 cents for the good connection.

Data was almost unusable for me in Mexico, I think it was TelCel.

In Argentina I got lucky and Movistar was unthrottled, had a full LTE signal. I would just have to manually select the network.

It's seamless every time I enter a country, do not have to switch sim cards or mess around registering. For anyone doing a bunch of country hopping in a short period of time this plan is great.

A friend of mine uses Movistar when in Mexico and reports good things. He is generally in the San Felipe area of Mex, so ymmv depending on location.

Man, that looks mighty nice. I swear every month I'm answering no more than a single digit in calls, but my roaming voice is approaching $100. :mad:

Data however for me works great.


The voice is so expensive with AT&T that when I roam, I mostly use my China Mobile number since it's only like 5¢/min (converted to USD) in a lot places to call my home network and only 13¢/min to everyone else when roaming. I swear AT&T is just ripping everyone off.

On Tre (3ITA 3G) in Milan this week and there is clear preference for some data over others. Ob my iPhone 5, Email, Weather, Yahoo Sports and Facetime work wonderfully, while the New York Times and Washington Post, WSJ and Financial Times do not load (or take a long time and give slow internet access warnings with graphics or videos not loading). Google searches are fine but clicking on search results may take 30 seconds to load.