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Some restaurants link to their non-optimized printing quality PDF. A few restaurants have made me download a 20 MB PDF, sometimes, while consuming my small and expensive roaming package.


> while consuming my small and expensive roaming package.

I'm curious. Do you get roaming charges having cross state-lines in the US, or do you have a nation-wide data package? Here in the EU, I'm on a plan that gives me unlimited data anywhere in europe, for around 30€ a month.


Roaming isn't really correlated with political boundaries like state lines here in the US. It tends to be when you're in a rural area that only a competing service has bothered to put up towers in.


I haven't seen this for quite a few years but I use one of the major carriers. I assume it may still happen with more budget options in the US.


I go to rural areas all the time. I have yet to see roaming charges and I have T-mobile. I don’t have data roaming charges anywhere in the world - just slower data outside of North America.


> Here in the EU, I'm on a plan that gives me unlimited data anywhere

Interesting. But those plans are not everywhere. I believe that the EU law is having a cap of (currently) 2€/GB for data consumption beyond the amount allowed outside home borders, which is computed by some providers as a proportion of the monthly fee.




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