I love UMA

[EdS817]

I live in the US and needed to make a call to the UK. Wasn't sure if it would work on UMA or if I would be billed for the call. I called TMO and they couldn't tell me. They suggested that I turn off the moible services and just use WiFi. I did that and the call went through with no problem and when I looked at my activity online it showed the call under UMA. No cost!

You gotta love UMA!

[Artemis68]

Seriously? Wow, that's weird. I thought there used to be a loophole that allowed people to do this but this loophole was patched months ago! Hm...guess not.

I am on UMA right now. I'm sitting outside in the summer house, using my laptop...it's a T-Mobile dead spot. Thanks to UMA, I still get all my calls and texts!

[Myveggies]

You are going to get billed, don't be shocked when you see your bill.

If you use UMA to call abroad from US, it will be charged. If you use UMA abroad to "call back to" US, it's free under your minutes allowances.

If you eventually do not get charged for that call, consider yourself lucky and don't do it again.

[crazygordon]

I agree with myveggies. 100% correct.

[Pearl9100]

Originally Posted by Myveggies

You are going to get billed, don't be shocked when you see your bill.

If you use UMA to call abroad from US, it will be charged. If you use UMA abroad to "call back to" US, it's free under your minutes allowances.

If you eventually do not get charged for that call, consider yourself lucky and don't do it again.

I'm confused. Lets say I go to the UK and make a call back home in the states or text while on wifi (with my network turned off of course). Will the minutes deduct from my allowance, or will I get charged?

If I do get charged, how can they tell I am in the state or not when I am logging onto a wireless access point?

[Myveggies]

As long as you are on UMA (wifi ONLY with network connections turned off), any call/text to another US-based number is free*(coming from your allowances). Regardless where you are in the world. But makes sure network connections is turned off so there is no possible roaming charges during handoff from UMA to TMO.

Because they can't tell where you are based on an IP address, therefore you will not be charged.