[blindkid] international roaming and your Cell Phones atConvention

[Mike Freeman]

Yeah right! I don't have an accessible phone.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kim Cunningham" <kim at gulfimagesphoto.com>
To: " (for parents of blind children)NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List" 
<blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 6:10 AM
Subject: Re: [blindkid] international roaming and your Cell Phones 
atConvention


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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