JT caps roaming charges

Tuesday 10 June 2014

In response to customer demand, mobile provider JT is introducing two new roaming initiatives from early June.

The first will enable JT customers to better manage their roaming costs by opting-in for a monthly limit of £50 to be placed on their account. When signed up for the cap, they will receive a message notifying the limit has been reached and data access will then be blocked. It will not affect calls or texts.

The second initiative is a 1GB, or 100MB mobile 'bolt-on' for JT’s pay monthly customers, which effectively reduces the cost of data roaming to 10p/MB when they are in the UK, France or USA.

The Managing Director of Global Consumer division at JT, Barna Kutvolgyi, said: ‘We are very pleased to announce the introduction of these two initiatives which are designed specifically to address the needs of our customers to help them to manage and reduce costs when roaming.

JT’s capping service and new “bolt-ons” are introduced in addition to its existing ones. It provides pre-travel advice/in store support, automated SMS alerts to warn of usage, Travel SIM cards and low cost data “bolt-ons” all of which help ensure customers “don’t get caught out” by high charges but continue to stay in touch wherever they travel.

Mr Kutvolgyi added: “Further to our continued efforts to help customers manage and reduce their roaming costs by introducing solutions such as these, we remain committed to building strong partnerships around the world to negotiate the very best roaming rates for our customers.”