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I just got my AT&T bill that includes a trip I made to Korea. They are charging me $0.0195/Kb for data and $0.50 per SMS message!
I see that these are the published rates listed on their web site. What I can't find is the contract that I signed quite a while ago for my specific plan, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was the rate.
What annoys me about this more than anything, is that while I was there, I really didn't have much need for data, but each time I tried to disconnect from the GPRS network, the AT&T Fuze just reconnected the next time I turned on the phone. I couldn't find a setting that said "don't connect to data when roaming". Most of the "data connect" charges were one or 2 KBs, but there were a couple in the 200 and 400KB ranges that added up quite fast.
Both voice and data added up to $54 in usage charges. However, considering their cheapest plans for international voice and data would cost $40/month and would still include usage charges - just at much lower rates, I'd rather pay this huge bill since I don't do more than a few international trips a year.
I also used Skype from my laptop at the hotels while I was there. It worked great, cost nothing to call home and I even had video when talking to the family.
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