| Carriers usually only use that clause when talking about roaming on domestic towers (non-at&t owned in this case) where they don't charge the subscriber for that usage... minutes just comes out of the purchased plan minutes while at&t may need to pay the other carrier for the time on the other carrier's network...
When roaming internationally, at&t charge the subscriber for the usage so why should they care whether the usage in "in network" or not?
As for the folks who talked about Mitnik using a lot of minutes, or at&t not having "unlimited" plans... Carriers (worldwide) always charge for international roaming. Sometimes these rates are $3 (USD) per minute for voice calls... For example $1.99/minute in china, $2.49/min in S.Korea last time I checked, I forget where I saw $2.99, but I know there's places where it's that high... At that rate, it doesn't take too terribly long to rack up a big bill, and that doesn't even account for the ridiculously high rates they charge for data usage! |
