http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/13/ntt-docomo-users-find-their-phones-just-a-little-too-good-at-roa/ Engadget Mobile Comments for NTT DoCoMo users find their phones just a little too good at roaming http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/13/ntt-docomo-users-find-their-phones-just-a-little-too-good-at-roa/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/13/ntt-docomo-users-find-their-phones-just-a-little-too-good-at-roa/Apr 13th 2008 3:46PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/13/ntt-docomo-users-find-their-phones-just-a-little-too-good-at-roa/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/13/ntt-docomo-users-find-their-phones-just-a-little-too-good-at-roa/Apr 13th 2008 8:16PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/13/ntt-docomo-users-find-their-phones-just-a-little-too-good-at-roa/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/13/ntt-docomo-users-find-their-phones-just-a-little-too-good-at-roa/ ]]>Apr 14th 2008 12:44AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/13/ntt-docomo-users-find-their-phones-just-a-little-too-good-at-roa/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/13/ntt-docomo-users-find-their-phones-just-a-little-too-good-at-roa/Apr 14th 2008 10:28AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/13/ntt-docomo-users-find-their-phones-just-a-little-too-good-at-roa/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/13/ntt-docomo-users-find-their-phones-just-a-little-too-good-at-roa/
Also there is some law that prevents them from getting into US markets and US is too big and will cost too much to set up a network compare to japan which is very small land area to cover.]]>Apr 16th 2008 12:48AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/13/ntt-docomo-users-find-their-phones-just-a-little-too-good-at-roa/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/13/ntt-docomo-users-find-their-phones-just-a-little-too-good-at-roa/
People in Mexico also get some bleed in from AT&T into Tijuana, and there are parts of the city where you will lose Telcel and the phone will roam in to AT&T and stay there and you also get charged with roaming.

T-Mobile is actually VERY good at limiting their coverage outside the US (or at least in CA). Their signal, from what I've seen, does not bleed in more than 1 mile into Tijuana, and usually just crossing the border drops your call. Same thing with Verizon and Iusacell.]]>Apr 14th 2008 1:34PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/13/ntt-docomo-users-find-their-phones-just-a-little-too-good-at-roa/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/13/ntt-docomo-users-find-their-phones-just-a-little-too-good-at-roa/
When I was in Mexico (Puerto Penasco aka Rocky Point) 2 years ago for spring break not only did my VZW phone get excellent coverage there, I was only charged 69 cents a minute for the roaming calls I made. ]]>Apr 14th 2008 3:04PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/13/ntt-docomo-users-find-their-phones-just-a-little-too-good-at-roa/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/13/ntt-docomo-users-find-their-phones-just-a-little-too-good-at-roa/
It's over 50 miles across the water to the USA from my father's house, which looks right towards Port Angeles. Lucky for him, the Roger's GSM signal (his carrier) is strong all around Victoria so his phone doesn't roam on AT&T...

And I use the Manual Network Selection on my RAZR V3xx to stay on AT&T signal so I don't inadvertently make a call on Rogers. ]]>Apr 14th 2008 2:59PM