fishycomics Posted October 1, 2013 #1 Share Posted October 1, 2013 What are your thoughts about Straight talk products, to make and receive unlimited free calls on a cruise Has anyone tried this? Services of straight talk can be found at the Wal-Mart site VZ, AT&T, Uses Cell tower gps, CDMA... What are your thoughts, and opinions.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare 1025cruise Posted October 2, 2013 #2 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Prepaid wireless don't normally work on a cruise ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Scrapnana Posted October 2, 2013 #3 Share Posted October 2, 2013 The website makes it sound like you can call internationally only from the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thinfool Posted October 2, 2013 #4 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Voice calls onboard are $2.49/minute. There is no way to get out of it. If you have a standard cell plan you will be billed by your carrier. Prepaid phones have no way to bill a customer who has already paid and may never return. Prepaid phones will not work on a ship. As an aside, neither will Consumer Cellular even tho they have a way to bill their customers. Their terms of service make clear that they only serve the US and its territories. (they use ATT towers, so anywhere ATT has service, so does CC) If you are sailing Carnival, they have ship to shore voice service for $1.99/min. from the phone in your cabin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greatam Posted October 2, 2013 #5 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Straight Talk doesn't even work in a lot of the USA. I live and work 80 miles West of Phoenix in the middle of the desert. There are only 26 houses out here in 70,000 acres of farmland that supply a lot of hay for dairy cattle, garbanzo beans, melons and grapes. Two or three of the neighbors and our office have purchased Straight Talk from Walmart. If it doesn't work here except SPORADICALLY, what makes you think it is going to work on a cruise ship??? IN ADDITION, PREPAID phone services DO NOT work on cruise ships. You MUST have an account to BILL the phone calls to. Trac Phone, Boost, Straight Talk, Vonage, all those that are either prepaid or VOIP DO NOT work on cruise ships. You MUST have an account to bill the phone calls to. DON'T waste your money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcwingwalker Posted October 2, 2013 #6 Share Posted October 2, 2013 What are your thoughts about Straight talk products, to make and receive unlimited free calls on a cruise Has anyone tried this? Services of straight talk can be found at the Wal-Mart site VZ, AT&T, Uses Cell tower gps, CDMA... What are your thoughts, and opinions.... For me one of the best things about cruising is NO cell phones! Try it and you'll be relaxing and having a great vacation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishycomics Posted October 2, 2013 Author #7 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Yes its a Nationwide/Domestic only unit. Yes it will work when you are at a port of call. and I never said to take it worldwide. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greatam Posted October 2, 2013 #8 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Yes its a Nationwide/Domestic only unit. Yes it will work when you are at a port of call. and I never said to take it worldwide. :D FORGET anyplace out of the USA. Straightalk (if it works) is ONLY USA based. FORGET it on a cruise unless you are cruising around Hawaii. WILL NOT WORK!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luddite Posted October 3, 2013 #9 Share Posted October 3, 2013 It IS amazing that so many are unaware of how the cel phone works at sea. It is going through the ship's satellite link. Circumventing it .... fails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slidergirl Posted October 3, 2013 #10 Share Posted October 3, 2013 Yes its a Nationwide/Domestic only unit. Yes it will work when you are at a port of call. and I never said to take it worldwide. :D Any cell phone with a US SIM chip or hard-wired to work in the US will work in a port of call in the US. I'm not sure why you posted - sounds like an advertisement... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marco Posted October 3, 2013 #11 Share Posted October 3, 2013 I'm on vacation and I'm not waiting for a kidney or heart transplant...........SO DON"T CALL ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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