OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Sprint announced Wednesday a pair of reciprocal wireless data roaming deals with Bell Canada and Iusacell of Mexico.
The North America data roaming agreements are part of an aggressive international services expansion by the U.S. wireless company.
Sprint is facilitating data access availability for U.S. customers north and south of the U.S. border by augmenting CDMA voice roaming agreements with a data roaming capability. Under the reciprocal agreements, customers will be able to seamlessly access e-mail, Internet and corporate applications in Canada and Mexico using select PCS phones, smart devices and mobile broadband cards.
Bell and Iusacell customers will be able to do the same in the States.
"Data demand knows no borders," said Danny Bowman, vice president of product at Sprint, in a release. "Our new roaming agreements allow customers of all partners to seamlessly access the applications they need so they can do more in more places on the extended Sprint network. We’re meeting mobility and access needs by increasing our portfolio of international services."
In Canada, data service roaming is available in the Greater Toronto Area, Greater Montreal Area, Quebec City, Mt. Tremblant, Ottawa, Hamilton, Oakville, Burlington, Muskoka, Halifax, St. John’s, Charlottetown, Moncton and Fredericton through Bell Canada’s wireless networks.
A data services subscription is necessary but customers do not need to add any special services or permissions to their account in order to use data services over CDMA networks in other countries, says Sprint. Data usage will be billed at a casual rate of US$0.002/kb.
