There’s still more: Starting yesterday (September 17), every Simple Choice customer with a home broadband connection can get a free T-Mobile Personal CellSpot ($25 refundable hardware deposit). It’s like Skype, which I already used on my iPhone overseas, except seamless and cheaper, with better quality sound. With this feature, which requires no app to install and no additional IDs or passwords to manage, customers can also make free Wi-Fi calls to the United States from anywhere in the world, all using their existing T-Mobile number. This is like adding millions of towers to our network in a single day,” said John Legere, president and CEO of T-Mobile via a release.
Just last week, the company announced its new “Wi-Fi Unleashed” program, under which every single smartphone it sells, regardless of brand, will offer free Wi-Fi calling and texting capability. So basically, T-Mobile made international communications painless, cheap and easy across its entire platform of iPhones, Android-based phones and others. And because I get a welcome text as soon as I step off the plane confirming service, I don’t have to keep the list of 120+ countries in my head and worry that I’ve landed in one of the few not covered (that has not happened yet, as the list is pretty exhaustive in terms of places most travelers will go). Yes, you can still get cheaper calling through a local SIM card, but at that price, unless you are an extremely heavy voice user, why bother? Plus you don’t need an unlocked phone to make it work. The plan works in over 120 countries, and from all of them, if you do make voice calls, they cost a flat rate of 20 cents a minute. It sounded too good to be true but now that I’ve used it several times in different countries, it is the real deal, smooth as silk, really no different from being in the US (except there is often even better coverage).
That’s it: no changing SIM cards, no having a different number abroad, same phone, same number, same plan, same service, at no extra cost. The sea change occurred when they introduced truly unlimited texting and data worldwide as part of their very reasonably priced Simple Choice plan, plus much lower voice rates.
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