T-Mobile Makes Calls, Texts Free to Hurricane Zone

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T-Mobile is helping out customers trying to contact people in areas affected by Hurricane Matthew.

The company won't charge for calls or texts from the U.S. to areas including the Bahamas, Bermuda, Cuba, Haiti and Turks & Caicos. It is also waiving its roaming fees for calls or texts of its customers in those areas.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone in the path of this powerful storm,” said T-Mobile President John Legere. “Please be sure to check on your loved ones.”

The offer is good through Oct. 7 and applies to prepaid and postpaid, as well as to MetroPCS, GoSmart Mobile and WalMart Family Mobile plans.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.