[blindkid] international roaming and your Cell Phones at Convention

Kim Cunningham kim at gulfimagesphoto.com
Fri Jun 19 13:10:29 UTC 2009


WOW! I am so thankful that you sent this email! I phoned Verizon and was told that they could NOT turn off the international roaming. I was also told that international roaming charges would be 69 cents per minute! They recommended that we use text messaging as we wouldn't have to worry about this issue. Just thought I would forward the Verizon response.
Regards,
Kim Cunningham

--- On Thu, 6/18/09, Wilson, Joanne <JWilson at nfb.org> wrote:


From: Wilson, Joanne <JWilson at nfb.org>
Subject: [blindkid] international roaming and your Cell Phones at Convention
To: david.andrews at nfbnet.org
Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 8:36 PM



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From: Berggren, John
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 2:17 PM
To: NCB Staff

For those of you travelling to convention, you'll notice that just a couple hundred yards across the Detroit River is Canada, our neighbor to the north (or in this unusual case, our neighbor to the south).  Though you will need a passport to cross the border, your cell phone doesn't.  Depending where you are in the hotel, your cell phone (or data card) may give up on a weak signal from your carrier and switch to the Rogers Communications cell signal from Canada.  This constitutes international roaming and can be very expensive.  Unless you have a contract that includes it, you might consider contacting your provider to disable international roaming, if only for the first couple of weeks of July.  I found AT&T to be very helpful in providing assistance with my request.  To make it a bit easier for those interested, here are contact numbers for the various carriers:

AT&T : 611 or 800-331-0500
Sprint : *2, press Talk or 888-211-4727
T-Mobile : 800-937-8997
Verizon : *611 or 800-922-0204
Virgin Mobile : 888-322-1122

Here's to no cell phone bill surprises, eh?  If you supervise anyone without e-mail, please advise any of those attending convention.

Regards,
John
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