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I spent quite literally half the last year outside of the US and suffered no such penalty. I have their unlimited plan and everything worked just fine. I don't make many calls, but when I do if you're outside of US/MX/CAN you can do so over wifi for free and my data worked fine.

Most of my time was in South America, I can't speak for overseas if this is the same.

I have never really had complaints about Google-Fi.

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You got lucky. They terminated my data for "being outside the US for too long". It was a crappy experience since the whole advertisement is about the international roaming being the same price as the (overpriced) US data.

I'm glad to hear this. I was a digital nomad for some time, and at the time Google Fi and T-Mobile were basically the only real options for international roaming long-term, and so I associated with a lot of folks on Google Fi and it was commonplace for folks to get penalized for spending a long-time outside the US. At the time, I had an 18 month stretch outside the US on T-Mobile with no issues. Maybe they've gotten better about this.

Not sure how long ago this was for you, but I do know I've received a few notifications from them over the past couple years about how they've updated/changed stuff around international travel/roaming. So it may be quite a bit better than whenever this was.

I also spend about half every year as a digital nomad.

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