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Old February 13th, 2013, 07:51 AM
florida lover florida lover is offline
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Default Cell Phone Service Availaility In Southern Carribean For USA Customers?

Can anyone here comment on what kind(s) of cell phone service is cost effective, generally avaiable and compatible with USA carriers in the southern Carribean?

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Old February 16th, 2013, 08:01 AM
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Default Phone calls from S. Caribbean

[quote=florida lover;37103633]Can anyone here comment on what kind(s) of cell phone service is cost effective, generally avaiable and compatible with USA carriers in the southern Carribean?




This may not help you at all but you can check with your carrier. Some of them have very reasonable extensions to allow calls from foreign countries for a short period of time for not that much money.

I don't know about the other U.S. carriers but AT&T already allows calls from U.S. territories including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. I made many calls from PR, St. Thomas, and St. Croix with no problem.'

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Old March 18th, 2013, 05:04 PM
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Can anyone here comment on what kind(s) of cell phone service is cost effective, generally avaiable and compatible with USA carriers in the southern Carribean?

Thank you!
As the poster above me stated, call your carrier. I have T-Mobile and had no problems using my phone in San Juan and St. Thomas (a little trouble here, another cell tower in the VI was being picked up. Called T-Mobile and everything was straightened out. I had to do a manual search for their tower and it stayed on).

The other ports I used WiFi calling or used my WiFi to send text messages and get on FB to do check-ins.
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