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Overseas Travel: How can I avoid incoming call costs but still use free text/data roaming while abroad?
We're planning to travel to Europe later this year and would like to take advantage of T-Mobile's free international text/data roaming. However, I saw that incoming calls are charged at one minut...
Great question. The easiest way to do this is to enable unconditional call forwarding. This will tell the network to immediately forward the call to a selected number without trying to pin you first which is where the charge comes from.
To enable unconditional call forwarding, you will need to follow these steps https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-4041#secondheading
Dial **21*18056377249# from your phone to enable CFU and ##21# to turn it off when you are back in the states and want to resume being able to get calls.
The 18056377249 number is the same number that your calls are forwarded to when you do not answer the phone so that the people calling you can leave a VM. Since we are enabling unconditional call forwarding, the call will be automatically routed there instead of ringing your phone first.
Hoping this works as 1) I've had exponential increases throughout this year in robo / scammer calls - i.e. ~10 per day and 2) I'll be traveling internationally so don't want to be incorrectly charged for these scam / robo calls that realistically the mobile networks (read T-Mobile) should be working harder to block / stop in the first place - cc @tmo_mike - please share any articles or support as to what's being done on this front to preserve the T-Mobile customer experience and if anything additional can be done on this front from the user perspective.
