On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:18:34 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

much snipped

Our regulators don't care since _customers_ don't pay for roaming;
that's a problem for the carriers to hash out between themselves.

Really, so I can get a refund for that $1/minute I was charged when
roaming in the USA last year?

My own choice of voice carrier (Virgin) was made because their
International Roaming was about half the price of others.

That's just not a consideration here for several reasons, some good and
some bad.

So if you went on holiday to France, the cost of calling would be the
same irrespective of which network you were with?

OTOH, I do remember the days of paying roaming charges on my 1G phone
even a few miles from home.

I remember the stories, like people being charged vast roaming fees to
call from (eg) Minneapolis to St Paul.

If you have an out of country phone in either Canada or the United
States, the roaming costs to go to the other country are noticeable.
I'm going to pay 40 dollars of 100 minutes of air time in the US for
one month so that I don't get hit with really bad roaming charges.
Within either the US or Canada, most carriers are nationwide so far as
roaming is concerned.

Clark Morris