T-Mobile makes Canada and Mexico part of your home wireless territory

T-Mobile CEO John Legere is making calls to and from Canada and Mexico part of your home wireless territory. The outspoken CEO announced the expansion of the company's base Simple Choice wireless plan to include those countries at no extra charge. "Making a call in Mexico, Canada or the US is now just like going out of state," Legere said in a company video promoting the new plan. "The (other) carriers still make it a huge pain when you cross any borders, including Canada and Mexico." According to Legere, rival carriers are projected to rack up nearly $10 billion in global roaming charges, at margins north of 90 percent. "This is one of the wireless industry's dirtiest little secrets." He says 35 percent of all international calls from the US are to Mexico or Canada, and 59 percent of the international minutes that are consumed.

The Mobile Without Borders wireless initiative, as T-Mobile calls it, launches July 15, and automatically applies to US customers signed into T-Mobile's Simple Choice plan. That plan starts at $50 per month and includes unlimited voice, text and up to 1GB of speedy 4G LTE data. You'll pay an extra $10 a month for up to 3GB of LTE. T-Mobile stressed that this new benefit isn't just about traveling to and making calls from within Mexico or Canada. It's also about making calls to those countries from the US, or, for that matter, calls from Mexico to Canada or vice versa.