[blindkid] international roaming and your Cell Phones atConvention
Mike Freeman
k7uij at panix.com
Sat Jun 20 15:13:03 UTC 2009
Yeah right! I don't have an accessible phone.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Cunningham" <kim at gulfimagesphoto.com>
To: " (for parents of blind children)NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List"
<blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 6:10 AM
Subject: Re: [blindkid] international roaming and your Cell Phones
atConvention
WOW! I am so thankful that you sent this email! I phoned Verizon and was
told that they could NOT turn off the international roaming. I was also
told that international roaming charges would be 69 cents per minute!
They recommended that we use text messaging as we wouldn't have to worry
about this issue. Just thought I would forward the Verizon response.
Regards,
Kim Cunningham
--- On Thu, 6/18/09, Wilson, Joanne <JWilson at nfb.org> wrote:
From: Wilson, Joanne <JWilson at nfb.org>
Subject: [blindkid] international roaming and your Cell Phones at
Convention
To: david.andrews at nfbnet.org
Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 8:36 PM
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From: Berggren, John
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 2:17 PM
To: NCB Staff
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.
Regards,
John
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