[nabs-l] international roaming and your Cell Phonesat Convention

[Antonio Guimaraes]

With A t 'n T, you must call them, 611, and then be transferred to their 
international call service department.

they turned mine off.

At least this is how it works with A T 'n T.

Other providers might work differently.

Antonio M. Guimaraes Jr.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Jacobson" <steve.jacobson at visi.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
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Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] international roaming and your Cell Phonesat 
Convention


> To my knowledge, roaming must be turned off within the phone and not by 
> the company.  From past experience, Sprint
> was able to give me instructions as to how to do that, though, so possibly 
> the suggestion to call your provider was with
> that in mind.
>
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:27:48 -0600, Nijat Worley wrote:
>
>>Greetings,
>>   I called T-Mobile and tried to get them to turn off the romeing service
>>on my KNFB Reader mobile phone for the convention, but they said that they
>>could not do it. What is the correct procedure to get this done?
>>   Yours
>>   Nijat
>
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Wilson,Joanne (by way of David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com>)"
>><JWilson at nfb.org>
>>To: <david.andrews at nfbnet.org>
>>Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:36 PM
>>Subject: [nabs-l] international roaming and your Cell Phones at Convention
>
>
>>>
>>> ----------
>>> 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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