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

[Nijat Worley]

Greetings Joe,
   Thank you very much for your explaination about the romeing problem. I 
will try out your suggestions. Thanks again.
   Yours
   Nijat

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From: "Joseph C. Lininger" <jbahm at pcdesk.net>
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Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] international roaming and your Cell Phonesat 
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> Nijat,
> If your carrier can't help you, then you have a couple possibilities.
>
> 1. You might be able to set your phone not to rome. This varies by
> phone, and even by carrier. Mostly by carrier in my experience,
> actually. But it's worth looking at.
>
> 2. Depending on how the roming works in this specific situation, you
> might be uneffected. Sometimes, in order to rome you have to speak with
> someone on the target carrier's network and provide a credit card, etc.
> instead of it automatically happening and being billed to your phone
> later. I can't say if this is the case for you, but it might be.
>
> 3. Your phone probably displays your roming status. This isn't
> necessarily accurate, but it's a pretty strong indicator of roming if
> your phone's indicator shows roming. It's just that sometimes you could
> be roming and your indicator wouldn't show it. If you don't trust the
> indicator, see the final suggestion below.
>
> finally...
>
> 4. You can try dialing 611 before making a call. This is the number most
> carriers use for contacting customer service from your cell phone, and
> it doesn't generally result in any charges even when roming. Sprint PCS
> customers, dial *611 instead. This is how you reach your "current
> carrier" customer service, be it Sprint PCS or some roming provider.
> Everyone else should use 611. Nijat, specifically, use 611 since you're
> with T-Mobile. This is probably more reliable than your phone's
> indicator, but be aware there are cases when it could fail. For example,
> let's say you dial 611 and get t-mobile, your carrier. Then you hang up
> and start to dial the number you want to call. In the time you do that,
> your phone switches to roming. It is unlikely, but it is a possibility.
>
> Of these options, I recommend option 1 if you can do it, with options 3
> and 4 together as a backup plan if you can't use option 1. Check the
> indicator, and if you aren't sure do 611 or *611 depending on if you use
> Sprint PCS or not. Then check the indicator again just before dialing
> your final destination.
>
>
> Hope this helps you all out.
> Joe
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