DickHardKnocks - that would be because AT&T is being charged themselves out the wahzoo for customer's international usage. Why wouldn't any carrier not want to exploit the easiest method of communication for international travelers?
Don't kid yourself into thinking that companies aren't out their to make a PROFIT.
A monthly plan allows AT&T or any company to recoup the costs of providing international roaming -- special billing systems, customer service departments, long distance contracts (all things that you can't expect to just come and go at the whims of YOUR usage), and per minute rates that are attractive to consumers but really have a very low profit margin for the company.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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DickHardKnocks - that would be because AT&T is being charged themselves out the wahzoo for customer's international usage. Why wouldn't any carrier not want to exploit the easiest method of communication for international travelers?
Don't kid yourself into thinking that companies aren't out their to make a PROFIT.
A monthly plan allows AT&T or any company to recoup the costs of providing international roaming -- special billing systems, customer service departments, long distance contracts (all things that you can't expect to just come and go at the whims of YOUR usage), and per minute rates that are attractive to consumers but really have a very low profit margin for the company.