T-Mobile to offer free unlimited international data, texts

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If you're a frequent international traveler, you're going to want to pay attention to Uncarrier 3.0.
T-Mobile's latest shake-up puts international roaming rates in its sights, with the carrier eliminating fees for data and text messages entirely in more than 100 countries. It will also simplify the calling rates, charging a fixed rate of 20 cents per minute.

He called out the excessively high roaming fees charged by the larger carriers, adding they likely carry profit margins at around 90 percent.

Legere used his favorite punching bag, AT&T, to demonstrate the saving. If a customer uses 72 megabytes of data, makes 32 one-minute calls back home, and sends 36 text messages a day on AT&T without an international plan, the cost would be $1,150 if the person was in Canada. In Europe, the cost would jump to around $1,500.

T-Mobile's cost: $6.40.

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