[blindkid] international roaming and your Cell Phones atConvention

[Richard Holloway]

Only 69 cents? Apparently Sprint charges $2.49 per minute for such  
roaming...

I am advised (by Sprint) that I can turn this option off in our  
phone's own settings.

Isn't that handy?

I have to to this manually for each phone and then they can disavow  
any claim of fault if we get billed for something since that  
responsibility is on the end user if something goes wrong...





Richard Holloway, Vice President
Georgia Organization of Parents of Blind Children
www.gopbc.org




On Jun 20, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Mike Freeman wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> ----------
> 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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