T-Mobile prepares to increase international roaming calling rates

When you travel internationally and want to ensure that your phone will keep you connected, you basically have two options: temporarily get a International SIM (or eSIM)or rely on the service of your current provider international roaming support. While the latter option might involve the least amount of effort, it can also be surprisingly expensive, and increasingly so for T-Mobile users.

Right now, T-Mobile International Roaming offers unlimited text messaging and varying levels of high-speed data (depending on your plan), but voice calls are pay-as-you-go and billed at a rate of $0.25 per minute.

However, on Reddit’s T-Mobile subscription, one subscriber shares the message have received from the operator, warning them that their international calling rates are about to increase. double:

Another Redditor chimes in in the comments, confirming that they also received a similar notice upon arriving in Italy. It appears that T-Mobile may have recently started notifying users about this change, as those who traveled a few days earlier did not receive any messages like this.

However, we haven’t found any official confirmation of the new price on T-Mobile’s website so far, so it’s unclear exactly what kind of impact we’re seeing – will this apply to subscribers of all different plan types, in all international destinations? We’ve reached out directly to the carrier in hopes of clarifying exactly how this change is happening, but have yet to hear back.

Although we’re only talking about a few cents per minute, doubling the price is still doubling the price, and we wouldn’t be surprised if a set of internationally traveling T-Mobile users started to reconsider their approach to voice calling. Instead, this change is much more likely to affect subscribers who weren’t planning on making many voice calls abroad in the first place and find themselves struggling to deal with some sudden emergency.