Just ahead of your upcoming summer vacation, Rogers and Fido have increased the price of their daily U.S. roaming options, as Roam Like Home and Fido Roam have jumped in price by $1 to $7 per day (17% increase), effective today.
The price increase comes less than nine months after the previous hike from last August, when prices went up 20% from $5 to $6 per day for U.S. roaming.
According to Rogers in a statement to MobileSyrup, “Our customers love Roam Like Home and Fido Roam, and are using their services more than ever while travelling abroad,” adding “With the expansion to even more destinations and customers, the services continue to offer great value with the ease, convenience and predictability customers expect.”
Today also saw the elimination of Rogers travel packs for international roaming, while Fido Roam now is available to all postpaid customers, instead of exclusively for those on Pulse plans, nearly two years after the feature launched on the flanker brand. Rogers expanded Roam Like Home to their postpaid customers beyond Share Everything plans in late 2016, a similar two year waiting period.
Also, new international roaming destinations were added today as well: Belize, Indonesia, Macau, Macedonia, Malaysia, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.
With the price increase to $7 per day for U.S. daily roaming, Rogers and Fido now match the price of Bell and Telus when it comes to respective U.S. daily roaming plans. However, Rogers caps the charge at 15 days per billing cycle ($105), while Telus caps at $100 and Bell at $140.
Back in January, Rogers and Fido increased the price of Roam Like Home and Fido Roam international by 20% from $10 to $12 per day.
If you’re going on vacation, you’re better off buying a local SIM card and using your unlocked smartphone, if you’re looking to save money over convenience.
Rogers Roam Like Home launched in the fall of 2014 and expanded to Fido in the spring of 2016.
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Price spikes happen so frequently now. It’s not even surprising. Yay Rogers profits increase another 2-3% I wonder why…
And how much does their investment increase each year? Hmm.
One provider bumps its price and everyone else follows suit. Ridiculous. Like a bunch of “lemmings running off a cliff” (*)
(*) = Using it a metaphor because I can’t find a more suitable one. Fact, Lemmings doesn’t actually commit mass suicide like running off a cliff. It’s just a widely popular misconception.
Ridiculous. 🙁
rogers and Bell just bumped their internet and tv as well, sucks
if you spend 10 days somewhere, that is like 70 bucks. did they raise the cap as well. rogers use to have it that it was up to 50 bucks and then it capped. is it not 70 bucks? Glad I left them.
15 days now, so $105 per billing cycle! Ridiculous!
Get roam mobility they’re good for Us travel and you get to keep the Us number as low as 2-3 dollars a year!
Roam Mobility is a major ripoff. You hardly hear anyone recommending them anymore.
I used them once in November and I paid for 4 days, so 2GB.. The first day I had somehow blown through my 2GB already, and was now capped at a pretty much unusable speed. Would not recommend.
How is it a ripoff?
I still get it for 3.50. With our discount. Love being an employee.
you should re-look again, Fido/Rogers discount no longer discount Roam Like Home.
And we can’t wait until you get fired. Lol.
Unlike the others, you can still use wifi calling outside Canada with Rogers.
WiFi calling counts towards your minutes
Sooooo, what’s your point? If you have unlimited calling that doesn’t matter, and at least with Rogers you can still use your minutes using WiFi calling for free if you’re outside of the country.
Wifi calling only works when no cellular network is available or is too weak. And being in the states, you will not be able to use your unlimited minutes even if you’re on wifi calling. Rogers use location services to charge you as if you were on the foreign cell network! You can’t win!
No, you can leave your phone on airplane mode and connect to wifi and wifi calling will work.
Definitely the one-two things I miss about having Rogers. It was really convenient.
So, no you don’t get charged anything, it’s like being local for calls and sms.
Not local calls, but calls within your home area or plan. For example, if you have free Canada calling, you can call anywhere in Canada with wifi calling. But if you want to call a destination when you’re roaming, that’s long distance as if you were making the same call from home.
Yes, that’s what I meant… I think I meant to say the call is like you’re calling from your local calling area.
Wrong. Whatever your plan minutes you have is what you’re using when wifi calling. If you have unlimited minutes you have unlimited wifi calling.
Well of course! How are you supposed to “feel like home” if you’re not getting ripped off by Rogers.
Holy crap, when it jumped to $6 I stopped using it nearly as much. Now at $7 I’m not going to use it at all.
Didn’t the CRTC rule on that years ago? US roaming is supposed to be capped at $50 per billing cycle and at $100 for international roaming? Everybody forgot about that already? To me, that’s why Rogers had initially marketed it as the « Roam like home feature » at $5 per day, max 10 days ($50) and $10 per day, max 10 days ($100) respectively. Personally, I think they are trying to gouge us illigelly again, until someone complains! I can assure you that if Rogers ever over charge me these regulated limits, I will complain till the end of time! They are not finished with me! LOL
That’s why I switched to Freedom. $20 for a month when in the US.
Hmm. . . ok. . . so if I goto the great US of A for 10days, it’s $70 for the privalge using my EXISTING data plan at $7/day. . . meaning if you have 2-4gb data/month you’re still capped. Basically double paying the BIG 3 to use the same data you’re already paying for. Hmm. . . ok . . . if I use a service like ROAM MOBILITY, I pay $5/day for 500mb/day of 4G data and unlimited 3G data which works out to 5GB or 10days @ $50. –There’s not much thinking required here.
i hope you can provide more jobs 🙂
Unlimited, 8Gb, here or in US for $50/month is the plan I have from Freedom. So this ‘news’ bothers me not. And for those of you who question my ‘satisfied posts’…the money I save every month is payment enough 😉
You’re a troll. Have a nice day
just a year ago it was $5, and now it is $7. that is a 40% increase in a year. back to using t-mobile again. see you later rogers.
With Bell’s bring your own device, the rate is $50. Per month, unlimited Canada & US roaming calls & texting with 5gb data.
Your plan is not for the general public…troll.
I sent an email to Fido telling them that the communication about the recent increase is a ‘fail’. If I didn’t read the email I was sent about our phone plan now being eligible for Fido Roam (which it always has been), I wouldn’t have seen the increase from $6 to $7 for USA.
I sent Fido a complaint (which you can do from their website) saying I was frustrated by their lack of communication and upset about the increase. I shared that I will no longer use this service and that future surveys about my happiness with Fido will reflect my feelings about this increase. I’ll just get a SIM wherever I’m traveling and save a lot of $$.