International cell phone roaming seems like this thing that is a relic of the corporations-can-totally-exploit-you-and-get-away-with-it past. Just like checking accounts with zero interest rates.

Frankly, I don’t know how companies implement international roaming but it seems inconceivable that it’s hard now in the digital era. Years ago in the age of monopolistic communications companies arguing about the interfaces between them, trying to come up with some way to provide adapters to their analog systems, with no better choice to call someone abroad, roaming was justifiably expensive, but now? Information is transferred digitally, easy to transform, there is an abundance of other options. So why is roaming so expensive? Have people fallen in a strange mode of accepting this as the way things are out of inertia?

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