Perhaps it was the resounding howls of pain from AT&T universal business travelers when they opened their monthly 3G phone bills, or a fit of corporate generosity, but AT&T unveiled new universal roaming input plans on Tuesday. While still pricey, they cut the cost of iPhone Web surfing overseas a great deal by previous rates. The new rates to into effect as of Wednesday, for the asking.

Package Cuts Rates Significantly

AT&T’s new data-roaming rates come not a billable minute too soon for some customers. Past rates for roaming came in at roughly $40 for 2MB of input — not hard to do when you hit YouTube or a Facebook photo gallery.

“AT&T has worked diligently to supply affordable options for worldly roaming considering the feature-rich mobile experience of [the] iPhone is indispensable to users,” said Bill Hague, AT&T wireless operations universal executive vice president. “With these new worldly goods plans, iPhone users

can access more details in more countries for less cost.”

Less cost equates to either $119 or $199 per month. The $119 plan gets you 100MB of input, while the $199 plan doubles your goods to 200MB. The per-month packages can be added and deleted at will, with no penalty, giving worldly callers a great pay-as-you-travel option when planning overseas trips.

To that end, AT&T additionally announced a travel site (www.wireless.att.com/travelguide) to help customers decide on rate plans according to their itinerary. The roaming-rate packages cover more than 67 countries worldwide, including Japan and South Korea. Countries off the rate-plan list — including Venezuela and the United Arab Emirates — are charged at the standard $0.0195/KB rate.
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Asked whether AT&T intends to add to the list of countries covered on the new data-plan list, Jenny Parker, spokesperson at AT&T, said, “We’re always looking to find ways to…

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