[Nfbf-l] Fw: [Nfb-announce] Fwd: international roaming charges --Detroitconvention

[Mark]

This is extremely important, thank you, Sherri.  While I am not attending 
Convention this summer, I am going to visit my parents in the northernmost 
part of Maine and will probably use their phone when I call back here, since 
they have an all-distance plan.  Northern Maine sticks up into eastern 
Canada like a thumb and I learned the hard way 2 years ago about 
international roaming charges when I visited my parents during the Labor Day 
weekend.  With our next bill from Verizon, we were shocked to discover a $33 
roaming charge, and we weren't subject to roaming charges in the good old 
United States, or so we thought.  But, because some of my calls were picked 
up by a cell tower in New Brunswick, we got charged and, frankly, getting 
those charges removed was like pulling hen's teeth.  So take care of any 
such issues now before getting a nasty rude awakening.  Thank you again, 
Sherri.
Mark Tardif
You can't hug your loved ones with nuclear arms
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From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:56 AM
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Those of us going to convention need to pay close attention to the
following:

Sherri
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Corbb O'Connor" <corbbo at gmail.com>
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list" <vabs at nfbnet.org>; <nfb-announce at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 12:31 AM
Subject: [Nfb-announce] Fwd: international roaming charges --
Detroitconvention


FYI on cell phones at the National Convention!

Corbb

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Rovig, Lorraine" <LRovig at nfb.org>
Date: June 15, 2009 2:21:43 PM EDT
Subject: FW: international roaming charges -- Detroit convention

Dear Students,

Please note the useful advice from the NFB’s IT department below.

Cordially,

Lorraine Rovig
Assistant to Mr. Anil Lewis, Chairperson, NFB Scholarship Committee
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
Office:  (410) 659-9314, x2415
Email:  scholarships at nfb.org

From: NFB IT DEPT.
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 2:17 PM
To: NCB Staff
Subject: international roaming

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 suprises, eh?  If you supervise anyone
without e-mail, please advise any of those attending convention.

Regards,
John

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