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Re:Launch HN: Solve (YC S17) – We Save International Travele... by mrtimo on Monday June 19, 2017 @04:12PM (#14590043)
T-mobile (Post-paid) has free international data and SMS... works in 100s of countries. No extra cost. This is the sole reason I am a customer.

The data is slow, but definitely good enough. It is good enough to use google hangouts to call phones back in the states.

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Re:Launch HN: Solve (YC S17) – We Save International Travele... by kobeya on Monday June 19, 2017 @04:38PM (#14590259)
T-mobile also routes though a Texas VPN when you're out of the country, which has its tradeoffs (super annoying latency, but no censorship in places like China).
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Re:Launch HN: Solve (YC S17) – We Save International Travele... by ctphipps on Monday June 19, 2017 @11:31PM (#14591997)
This is the way that mobile data roaming works - the Internet egress point is your home carrier's, not the carrier on which you are roaming. Nothing special about T-Mobile here.
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