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

[Corey Cook]

most phones also have a setting called home only,
set this and you will be fine

Corey
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Corbb O'Connor" <corbbo at gmail.com>
To: <nfbv-announce at nfbnet.org>; "Virginia Association of Blind Students 
list" <vabs at nfbnet.org>; <nfb-announce at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 12:31 AM
Subject: [Vabs] Fwd: international roaming charges -- Detroit convention


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

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