T-Mobile beefs up its unlimited data plans with 70 more countries covered
The wireless carrier wars are continuing to heat up, this time internationally.
Today, T-Mobile announced it's expanding it’s Unlimited plan benefits by adding 70 more countries where customers get unlimited data (albeit slow 2G data speeds). This brings the total to 210 countries or destinations for T-Mobile One and legacy plan customers with Simple Global.
Before you go celebrating the new coverage areas, it's important to note that in these countries, customers will not get access to free high-speed 4G LTE data, but rather unlimited data at 128kbps (aka 2G). So yes, this is a slow network, but it's better than nothing. Customers also get unlimited texts in these locations for free. Making phone calls internationally on T-Mobile will cost 25 cents a minute. With this change, there are no additional costs to customers either.
The carrier is also adding a new option to get faster speeds abroad. In any of these 210 countries or destinations, customers can pay $5 a day for 512MB of 4G LTE and unlimited calling in that 24 hour period.
The additional 70 countries will be available starting July 22, while this new data pass will be available from August 1.
As it stands now, T-Mobile has the best pricing for these data passes and the most countries covered. It will be interesting to see if other carriers try to challenge T-Mobile or match the new pricing.
