[Vabs] Fwd: international roaming charges -- Detroit convention

[Corbb O'Connor]

FYI on cell phones at the National Convention!

Corbb

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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