Roaming costs you can't control.

**xtachx** · 12-09-2011, 03:38 PM

Originally Posted by kostvan

then this is -100 for Mobilicity. Wind does not do that

Correction. Wind does it too. The ONLY provider who found a way around it is Fido.

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**kostvan** · 12-09-2011, 04:16 PM

Originally Posted by xtachx

Correction. Wind does it too. The ONLY provider who found a way around it is Fido.

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Well, unless it has changed, according to http://www.howardforums.com/showthre...Wind-away-quot,
people were able to get free SMS messages during roaming while having calls forwarded...

**xtachx** · 12-09-2011, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by kostvan

Well, unless it has changed, according to http://www.howardforums.com/showthre...Wind-away-quot,
people were able to get free SMS messages during roaming while having calls forwarded...

Ok I think you are confused. There are 2 charges involved here:

Roaming call forward charge:
Mobi: 20c / call /min
Wind: 25c /call /min

Sms notification charge:
Wind: $0
Mobi: No sms notification (UNLESS the caller leaves a voicemail. In that case, 10 cent for incoming sms.)

What you are talking about is the SMS notification charge. What I am talking about is the call-forwarding charge. In mobi you pay 20c to forward the call, in wind you pay 25c .

Fido is the ONLY carrier that I know of that has found a way around this. They disconnect the call before the roaming network routes it to voicemail.

**kostvan** · 12-09-2011, 07:54 PM

Originally Posted by xtachx

Ok I think you are confused. There are 2 charges involved here:

Roaming call forward charge:
Mobi: 20c / call /min
Wind: 25c /call /min

Sms notification charge:
Wind: $0
Mobi: No sms notification (UNLESS the caller leaves a voicemail. In that case, 10 cent for incoming sms.)

What you are talking about is the SMS notification charge. What I am talking about is the call-forwarding charge. In mobi you pay 20c to forward the call, in wind you pay 25c .

Fido is the ONLY carrier that I know of that has found a way around this. They disconnect the call before the roaming network routes it to voicemail.

my interpretation of the last paragraph of that post:

Good news is it worked. Didn't lose a penny, yet knew if anyone texted or called, I knew. The forwarding was sent to my other Bell cell before I left the home zone. So I got all texts to the Bold free. And the calls just went to the other cell so I could see the number calling.

is that all forwarded calls were $0.00 despite having Wind phone on in an away zone
please show me where I am confused?

**Fortissimo** · 12-11-2011, 02:04 AM

Fido has done this back and forth a couple of times. In the old old days, Fido's roaming in the US will be no charge if forwarded to voice mail after a few rings. Then after they got bought out by Rogers, a couple of years later, then they aligned with Rogers to start charging for conditional forwarding (including Voice Mail). And then a few years later, they changed back to no charge.

Fido allowed incoming SMS free of charge while roaming in the US, for most, if not all of these times as far as I know.

So if you only need it as a "pager", getting Caller ID and receiving SMS, ironically it's cheapest to have a postpaid Fido roaming in the US. But if you ever use it, then other providers (like WIND or Mobi) are indeed cheaper by far.

At the time, Even Fido reps were very confused about if it's billable or not, during any of it's periods.

**xenyz** · 12-11-2011, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by kostvan

my interpretation of the last paragraph of that post:

is that all forwarded calls were $0.00 despite having Wind phone on in an away zone
please show me where I am confused?

I was unsure if it was set up while in the home zone or while roaming, so I posted a message to that thread. Hopefully someone can try it out and report the results. I'm very interested in getting this working (http://www.howardforums.com/showthre...-WiFi-networks!) even if I have to manually set up unconditional call forwarding.

**kostvan** · 12-12-2011, 11:21 AM

This is what I'v gotten from the horse's mouth:

Thank you for your e-mail response. Once the phone is turned off on the Mobilicity zone after activating the call forwarding, there should not be any charges. If the phone is turned back on in one of the Roaming areas, even for a few minutes, the phone will connect to a roaming network. Therefore, switching the phone off will not make a difference. You will still be charged roaming because your Mobilicity phone has connected to the roaming network. I recommend that you switch your phone off in the Mobilicity zone to avoid roaming charges.

Makes sense for me for conditional roaming settings but not for unconditional ones

**beachlover333** · 12-13-2011, 08:32 AM

Originally Posted by xenyz

I was unsure if it was set up while in the home zone or while roaming,

Well, I started the thread, and I was quite clear on this point....see post #3 of that thread

Originally Posted by beachlover333

is by unconditional call forwarding before leaving Wind home (so no calls ever leave Wind's system), but the phone can be on (and roaming) to receive that free incoming text....