Bell said today it is cutting in half the rates on its most popular mobile data, voice and text roaming plans for Canadian customers travelling to the U.S.

Speculation that U.S. telecom giant Verizon was considering a bid in the upcoming radio spectrum auction or might potentially buy out one of the smaller players such as Wind or Mobilicity raised the ire of the big three telecom companies in Canada, including Bell.

It seems like a wonderful policy to people because they don’t need to pay for the hefty bills if they travel to the U.S, but does it really works?

Actually, a huge amount of people only travell to the America for serveral days or even shorter, they can just use limited data. What’s more, not all of them are the consumers of the Bell, it is unadvisable to pay for a high liquidated damages to move to Bell.

In my opinion, to decrese the high price of the phone calls and data is the high priority to Bell now, it is very clear that Canadians are unhappy with how much it costs to use their phones a lot not only when they are in Canada, but also when travel abroad.