Rogers yesterday announced Rogers announced new roaming offers that will make staying connected while travelling easier for consumers. They’ve also added free usage text alerts so that customers can easily manage their consumption.
Here’s what Rogers is offering:
New international travel plans, with data, voice minutes and text in one
- Select plans now include voice, text and minutes in one convenient package so they’re easier to use
- Voice and text only plans are still available for those customers that don’t want data
$9.99 data-only roaming rate
- This data-only rate is great for shorter trips and the amount of data that comes with the plan depends on the international destination
- Like our $7.99 per day U.S. data roaming rate, Rogers will automatically add this offer to the customer account once they start using data while roaming
For example: A Rogers customer traveling in France is provided with 20MB of data, at $9.99/24 hours.
Free usage alerts
- To manage costs, Rogers offers two data usage alerts:
- Customers can text “USAGE” to 3330 to see how many daily data rates have been used or if they’ve been charged overage costs on their travel plan
- Rogers will send text alerts as customers near the end of the data bucket included in a travel plan or the $9.99 rate
All packs can be purchased by texting “TRAVEL” to 7626 (free in Canada and abroad) or clicking a link in the SMS Rogers will send you once you’ve arrived at your destination. And destinations such as Africa, Europe, Asia, Caribbean, Latin America & Oceania as well as the USA. While not nearly as cheap as using a local SIM (which is my preferred option as I have a unlocked iPhone 5), at least the price of roaming is heading in the right direction.
For more information about these new roaming offers check out rogers.com/roaming.