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Prepaid domestic roaming
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I can't seem to find any answers. I'm considering switching to a simply prepaid plan, but spend a lot of time in an area with only roaming coverage (US Ce...
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Domestic roaming data | T-MOBILE SUPPORT
How much domestic roaming data do you get?
Recent postpaid plans (On or after 11/15/2015)Older postpaid plans (Before 11/15/2015)Prepaid plansPlease contact us if you're unsure how much domestic roaming data you have, because this varies between our many plans.
The answer you got from gramps28 is 100% wrong. There is NO domestic roaming included for prepaid T-Mobile plans. I’ve had a prepaid plan for a few years and have NEVER been permitted to roam domestically. At this moment, I manually forced my device to connect to Sprint, but it’s showing “Emergency Service Only,” and no data.
Few weeks ago, the local T-Mobile cell was down, my device was on “emergency service only” and no data. T-Mobile rep tried to boast about the Sprint network serving customers, and couldn’t explain why Sprint’s network had me locked out. And that’s with roaming enabled on the device.
And T-Mobile never gave me a credit for the time (most of the day) when their system was blocking me from the data service I paid for.
A few minutes ago, I set my device to connect manually to Sprint. Not working (again). T-Mobile is still blocking me from domestic roaming.
T-Mobile designed their network to only cover a small fraction of each market where they operate, so without domestic roaming, T-Mobile prepaid can only access maybe 10% of the US cellular coverage areas they show on their “map.”
