[Nfbwv-talk] International Roaming While at National Convention

[C. Smyth]

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.