Comments on: For US$ 5.00 get cheap international calls http://www.cellphonesignal.com/for-us-500-get-cheap-international-calls/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:10:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jaakko H. http://www.cellphonesignal.com/for-us-500-get-cheap-international-calls/comment-page-1/#comment-1370 Jaakko H. Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:53:14 +0000 http://www.cellphonesignal.com/?p=526#comment-1370 There's a nasty flip side to this new "discounted international calling" feature. And that is that for some countries, such as Luxembourg (one of the most central countries of Europe, albeit a small one), the price without the plan hiked way over 500% (from about 30 cents per min to $1.64)!! .. And all this happened without Tmobile giving any notice. And for me it just happened that some in my family moved to Luxembourg a while ago and I was stupid enough (as the Tmobile customer rep implied) to have called them without first checking the price of calling (which I had a couple of months back). .. And for a 42 minute call was charged nearly $70!! I think this is legalized robbery _and_ holding hostage (as I can't leave Tmobile because of the stupid 2 year contract (which in it self is another incredible oddity of the "free market" -- as I haven't even bought my phone through Tmobile and thus haven't been subsidized by them!) Should someone reading this know of a class action suit or any consumer action against Tmobile, please send me a note to tmobile (at) jaakkoh.info . http://www.t-mobile.com/International/LongDistanceOverview.aspx There’s a nasty flip side to this new “discounted international calling” feature. And that is that for some countries, such as Luxembourg (one of the most central countries of Europe, albeit a small one), the price without the plan hiked way over 500% (from about 30 cents per min to $1.64)!! .. And all this happened without Tmobile giving any notice.

And for me it just happened that some in my family moved to Luxembourg a while ago and I was stupid enough (as the Tmobile customer rep implied) to have called them without first checking the price of calling (which I had a couple of months back). .. And for a 42 minute call was charged nearly $70!!

I think this is legalized robbery _and_ holding hostage (as I can’t leave Tmobile because of the stupid 2 year contract (which in it self is another incredible oddity of the “free market” — as I haven’t even bought my phone through Tmobile and thus haven’t been subsidized by them!)

Should someone reading this know of a class action suit or any consumer action against Tmobile, please send me a note to tmobile (at) jaakkoh.info .

http://www.t-mobile.com/International/LongDistanceOverview.aspx

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