Hate paying international roaming charges? T-Mobile might be the right carrier for you.
Taking a smartphone out of the country and then out of airplane mode no longer ensures an airfare-sized roaming bill.
But while international roaming has gotten cheaper and simpler at the big three carriers, they continue to offer it in strikingly different ways.
At T-Mobile, the free-but-slow international roaming that replaced steep metered-data surcharges back in 2013, got a little less pokey June 21 when the roaming speed limit went from 128 kbps to 256 kbps.