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Re:Project Fi by Google by adventured on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @05:14PM (#9423591)
Roaming is almost non-existent in the US now among the four major networks. Not sure if you mean domestic or international though.

I pay about $65 / month with AT&T, for unlimited talk & text, and 5gb of LTE data (10gb shared on a two person family plan). That includes the cost of the device.

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Re:Project Fi by Google by pluma on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @06:45PM (#9424064)
What is domestic roaming? I guess you mean state-to-state within the US? I wouldn't have thought that that would have ever been a thing (at least not after domestic long distance calls stopped being a thing).

I always hear Americans say they have unlimited talk and text. Is this really the most popular option or do most plans just include it by default? Might explain why American mobile plans always sound so incredibly expensive to me (i.e. "pay for what you use" a la Ting is actually a disruptive idea in that market because everybody overpays by default).

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Re:Project Fi by Google by dragonwriter on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @06:55PM (#9424102)
Domestic roaming is using a (domestic) network not belonging to the users contracted carrier.
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