T-Mobile announced Wednesday that its Simple Choice customers can get free data and text messages when traveling in more than 100 countries, continuing its mission to disrupt the U.S. wireless industry.

The "un-carrier" will be giving free data roaming and texts to all of its Simple Choice individual and business customers beginning Oct. 31. For users who want to make phone calls overseas, calls will be a flat rate of $0.20 per minute to any country on the list, including Canada, Mexico, China, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom.

T-Mobile announced its new international plans at an event in New York City. Company CEO John Legere also revealed that T-Mobile has signed a multi-year partnership with Shakira. Legere cited Shakira's huge presence on social media and her international reach as one of the reasons the partnership is so symbiotic.

But before you start thinking you'll have free LTE data in 100 countries across the globe, the are a few caveats. The free data is guaranteed to be at least 2G, but if users want faster data, they can buy it in various megabyte- and time-based buckets. Those buckets range from $15 for 100MB over one day to $50 for 200MB over the course of two weeks.

T-Mobile also expressed that this plan isn't for users who are planning on living overseas (think trips of six weeks or less). Data plans are a huge profit center for wireless carriers, according to Legere. "You shouldn't be asking how are we doing this; you should be asking, 'How did they get away with charging so much for so long?'"

"We didn't create separate roaming agreements for this plan," he added. "The truth is that international roaming isn't a huge revenue center for us. We think we can add a tremendous amount of customers because of this new offering."

In addition to the international plans, T-Mobile has a new stateside International Talk & Text plan for $10 a month. The plan allows unlimited international calls to landlines in Simple Choice countries, as well as unlimited text messages. Calls to mobile phones will be no more than $0.20 a minute.

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