I just found this site, I wish I knew about it before to ask for comments and equipment. Specially to save research time Next week I will traveling to Alaska and I want to make sure my Blackberry will not cause roaming charges over there. I called CSR and they have non solid answers and seem to be viewing the same pages I can check on tmobile.com. I was looking for somebody that will say a solid YES or NO, instead of "this says blah blah blah" It is clear I will not pay roaming for incoming/outgoing calls. Questions are: * Do I still get my family benefit of free tmobile-to-tmobile minutes? * Will I have to pay for roaming charges on the GPRS network? I have the Unlimited Blackberry plan. Thanks in advance
I don't think you will pay anything in roaming. If you are on a national Plan, T-Mobile offers FREE roaming and M2M apply on most roaming carriers. The exclusions for free M2M are somewhere on the T-Mobile website.
As far as I know, DATA roaming should be free as well. Hopefully someone else that actually uses T-Mobile can chime in and give us a definite answer.
One CSR said T-Zones are free but BlackBerry no. That I will incurr $10/Mb. I know BlackBerry is a different world for T-Mobile. Thanks for following up. I hope somebody knows the answer.
Ill be going up to Alaska in August. You'll be roaming on Dobson/CellONE. Your calls should be free. I dont think you will have M2M, your calls will just come out of your minute bucket. As for data, i used the T-Zones service tethered to my laptop while roaming a few months back and wasn't charged. I couldn't find anything on BB Data on the website so it looks like you may be charged that much for using your BB. I would just call CS again and confirm this.
OK, now that I am back (still trying to organize the pictures) and after getting the bill from T-Mobile I can summarize the facts for future references. CURRENT PLAN * Family plan with T-Mobile, including no roaming charges * Phone1: Blackberry with BES add-on plan * Phone2: Blackberry with BIS add-on plan FACTS FROM THE BILL * Phone service available with Cell/One. Decent coverage even when running away from avalanche or bears (j/k) * No roaming charges * Free M2M with T-Mobile customers were still free * Nights and weekends were free too, even to local numbers in AK * No DATA/GPRS roaming charges on any of the two plans (BES & BIS) Surely I am glad there were no extra charges applied to my account, even T-Mobile is not the primary carrier in Alaska. Hope this helps somebody else in the future!
