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Re:Google and Apple Would Make Cell Service Better By Bidding by dubya on Friday October 09, 2015 @12:53PM (#10361463)
The ability to roam onto a different network? Yes, T-mobile doesn't cover everywhere, but has roaming agreements to fill the gaps in coverage.

There's a caveat that data roaming is pretty restricted. My wife visited Bozeman, MT, and was limited to, I think, 10 megs of data, which went very quickly. On the other hand, in the UK T-mobile had unlimited but somewhat slow data at no extra cost.

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Re:Google and Apple Would Make Cell Service Better By Bidding by rahimnathwani on Friday October 09, 2015 @03:30PM (#10362722)
Yes. But a more competitive wholesale market (which is what the article is suggesting) wouldn't necessarily fix that limitation (on your wife's retail contract).
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