Sprint has announced it will offer international data roaming without the charges. It follows similar attempts by Three UK -- that recently acquired O2 -- and Google's reported wireless service.

The data roaming is planned for 15 countries in Latin America, Europe and Japan and could offer voice, text and data at 2G speeds. The latter might not be that intriguing considering 2G speeds are extremely outdated but Sprint might be looking to cut costs when it removes roaming charges.

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Named the International Value Roaming plan, calls will be dropped to 20 cents per minute and similar prices will be available for text and data. Sprint claims this is what consumers have been asking for years and it has finally listened.

"The continuous feedback from our customers indicates how important it is to travel without the fear of high roaming charges," said Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure.

Sprint is following rival T-Mobile that introduced a similar deal in 2013 allowing customers to travel abroad with no extra cost. Perhaps unsurprisingly, both AT&T and Verizon Wireless are both not planning any sort of roaming without additional charges.

The Sprint package offers 100 MB for $15 on a one-day pass, 200 MB for $25 on a seven-day pass or 500 MB for $50 on a two week pass. Customers will be able to elect for more when they run out, avoiding any potential sneaky extras Sprint has left for customers.

Like we said before, Sprint is limited to 15 countries at launch: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Russia, South Korea, Spain and the UK.

This is a bit of a shame considering Three UK offers service to over 100 countries and T-Mobile has 120 countries available.

Sprint has been offering a lot more customer rewards for choosing a contract with the carrier in the past year. Marcelo Claure, the new chief executive, believes the way to get customers interested in Sprint again is by offering them a better deal.

That has mostly been provided through undercutting the competition, although in the future it might be through service features, better access to data plans and large investments in 5G structure for 2020.

TagsSprint, data roaming, Value Roaming, U.S. carriers