[Ohio-talk] Important Convention Cell Phone Warning

[Peters, Bruce (NT & EO)]

Important notice if you have a cell phone at convention:

 

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.

 

Bruce A. Peters

National Federation of the Blind

1670 Liberty Dr. Akron, Ohio 44313