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Quote: Originally Posted by billclark There's no way your roaming charges in Canada and Mexico are $3/min. I'll be glad to show you a copy of my Roger's bill. The charged me $3/min and now there's an additional .15 tax. I agree that Cingular has a better plan for Mexico, but they don't have a plan for Canada, so I'd be roaming 75% of the time. The plan so far seems to be two devices, a Cingular BB and a verizon...

I have been with Cingular for 2-1/2 years, although just switched phones to BB Pearl in January. If you have Cingular, and travel to Canada and/or Mexico, call up and ask to be switched to the North America plan. Reps may not know about this, so be persistent. Cost is a bit more per month, but no roaming, so if you travel often, it pays to switch. Then, you only use minutes.

Important Notice About Increase in Mexico Roaming Rate Effective July 1, 2007, the rate for making and receiving calls while roaming on participating carriers networks in Mexico will increase from a flat rate of $0.69 per minute, to a flat rate of $0.99 per minute. Global Phone GSM airtime rates will not be impacted by this change. For more information, please visit www.verizonwireless.com/international and select 'International...

Paying the roaming charges.

Quote: Originally Posted by southwestcomm Sprint offers excellent international rates for Canada and Mexico. +1 Sprint has benifited from the merger, cause Nextel had great rates for Mexico and south america.

There's no way your roaming charges in Canada and Mexico are $3/min. I have a Cingular corporate account and I have users that travel in the US, Canada, Mexico, the UK, Germany, France, Spain, and most of Central America... the most expensive our roaming charges get is $1.75/min in most of the Central American countries. If you do business in multiple countries, expect to pay roaming charges. It's a cost of doing business as an...

It wasn't all that long ago that roaming was $3.00 a minute in parts of the U.S. The carriers overall have done a fairly decent job of driving down a charge that was a universal sore point for wireless customers for a long time. The truth is, International roaming agreements cost carriers money. I'm not naive enough to believe that all they are doing is defraying costs, but it is a factor.

Quote: Originally Posted by TBone2k For frak's sake, why can't one of these companies get smart enough to offer a voice and data plan that covers Canada, USA and Mexico? My company is pretty small potatoes and we have plants in all three places and staff who need to go between them. I'm sure there are some really big companies who have lots of people who need to do this sort of thing. Problem is this, we can get a good cell...

Sprint offers excellent international rates for Canada and Mexico.

What about the rest of the world? Europe????