Rogers' Roam Like Home service is available in 41 more countries

Rogers expands the availability of its Roam Like Home service, so you don't have to think about pay-per-use charges while you are travelling. The carrier includes the following destinations into this plan: Algeria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic, Egypt, Faroe Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Georgia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Isle Of Man, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liberia, Mali, Mayotte, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar (Burma), Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Reunion, Senegal, Tajikistan, Tonga, Tunisia, Vanuatu, and Western Samoa. Roam Like Home is a plan that lets you use your phone as you would at home for a low daily rate. It's $7 per 24 hours in the US and $12 a day internationally, which is where these countries would fall under.

Rogers brings Roam Like Home to more wireless consumers

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Bringing smartphones or other mobile devices while on trips is almost a necessity. But having to pay so much for roaming fees is a bummer. Rogers hopes to help out its clients by expanding its Roam Like Home to more postpaid wireless consumers. This offer is meant to let Canadian subscribers use their wireless plan as they would at home when traveling to the U.S. and over 100 destinations worldwide.

Rogers says almost 800,000 more of its subscribers can avail of this data bucket along with talk and text included in the plan. This charges $5 per day in the US and $10 per day for the other destinations around the world. Customers will only be charged for a maximum of 10 days on each monthly bill or $50 in the U.S. and $100 in eligible international destination. Long distance charges won’t be applied to calls and texts made to local numbers in your destination or back home to Canada. You can find out more about this offering in this link.

Rogers expands Roam Like Home service to Asia, Oceania for just $10/day

Rogers today announced their Roam Like Home service now includes some countries in Asia and Oceania joining a list of more than 100 roaming destinations worldwide. Rogers Share Everything_™ customers, including small businesses, can roam internationally for only $10 per day in Asia, Oceania, Europe, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America.

"We know our customers love the freedom of using their plan wherever they are, just like they do at home. We've heard them and we've invested in Roam Like Home_™ to add more and more destinations to the plan," said Raj Doshi, Executive Vice-President Wireless Services, Rogers Communications.  

Almost two million Canadians plan on travelling to Asia this year, and 95 per cent of them say they plan on bringing their smartphone on their trip, according to a recent study.  Travellers agree their primary reasons for bringing a device abroad are to keep in touch (73 per cent), take photos/videos (66 per cent), and check email (66 per cent).  Compared with travellers to other regions, those travelling to Asia are almost a third more likely to bring a device to access the Internet.

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