T-Mobile Is Offering Free International 5G for Summer Travel Season
Whether you're road-tripping or getting on an airplane, T-Mobile just announced big subscriber benefits for anyone traveling this summer.
The latest "UnCarrier" move includes free in-flight Wi-Fi on three airlines and high-speed roaming, with 5G, in up to 210 countries.
"Our mission is to be the best in the world at connecting customers to their world, and that means making sure your phone just works wherever you go—even if you travel beyond our signal," T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert said in a press release.
International data usage has boomed by 60x since T-Mobile first introduced free, low-speed data roaming in 2013, T-Mobile Consumer President Jon Freier said. That demanded a rethink. "When you leave the US and land in any one of the countries that we serve, it just works," Freier said. "If they have 5G services there, great, and if it's LTE, great."
The global, high-speed roaming requires that you be on T-Mobile's most expensive Magenta Max plan, also known as the "truly unlimited" plan. It's limited to 5GB per month, after which you're knocked down to 256Kbps. On the Magenta plan, the next step down, the 5GB of high-speed is only available in 11 central and eastern European countries where T-Mobile owns a wireless carrier. Elsewhere, it's 256Kbps.
"This is an incredible benefit to use as a customer," Freier said.
Verizon(Opens in a new window) and AT&T(Opens in a new window) do not offer free international roaming (other than to Canada and Mexico). "Day passes" on those carriers let you use 4G and sometimes 5G(Opens in a new window) high-speed data for $10/day. Verizon offers one free travel pass day per month with its Do More and Get More plans. AT&T says it will never charge you more than $100/month per line for day
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