No is the answer to a question I posed in a prevous discussion - Will the purchase of an on demand data pass for international roaming allow me to connect to a faster network in Venezuela?
The purchase of an on demand data pass for international data roaming did not allow me to connect to a faster network. I purchased the 7 day data pass and gave it a couple of days, you know, just in case it took a while for settings to update or whatever.
It still cannot be explained why for that 1 day several days ago I had access to the fast network. I had someone check my T-Mobile data usage and the T-Mobile website shows that I was able to connect to that fast network on that 1 day (web site provides network name so it is very clear).
I continue to only have access to the 2G Digitel network where text messaging works, but I am not able to access any usuable data in the browser. As I stated, I had someone check my T-Mobile data usage and the T-Mobile website shows small amounts of data usage each day - not sure what that is, but it is certainly is not data shown in the browser. I cannot even get google.com the most simple of web pages to display.
The best I can tell at this point is that the on demand data pass for international data roaming will provide enough roaming data for the account so T-Mobile will not likely assess any roaming charges. I think T-Mobile will assess data roaming charges if more than about 10% of the data limit chosen under the simple choice plan is consumed while roaming (50MB for a 500MB plan). So, the data pass will provide protection from this (assuming you stay within the data pass data limit).
I view this as the end of my experiment. The T-Mobile commercials were great and effective (thanks Jeremy), but unfortunately it did not deliver what I thought it was promising. I know Venezuela is not a popular destination so T-Mobile probably doesn't really care about this, but why put the country on the simple choice international roaming list if it is not going to deliver as advertised, not sure.