steffysmom Posted April 23, 2014 #1 Share Posted April 23, 2014 Hi Everyone: Traveling to Bermuda in June via the NCL Breakaway and I wanted to see if anyone has any experience with T-Mobile cell phone service while on the island of Bermuda ? Hoping that the reception is good so that we can stay in touch with our family back home while we travel. Thanks in advance for your help with this question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rednose83 Posted May 5, 2014 #2 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Anybody know about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gpw45 Posted May 5, 2014 #3 Share Posted May 5, 2014 According to the T-Mobile site (http://www.t-mobile.com/optional-services/roaming.html) it depends on your plan. If you have the Simple Choice plan, Data and Text is free. Voice is $.20 per minute. Note that the free data is slow - probably 128kb. You may be able to purchase high speed data. Not cheap. If you can find free or cheap wireless, you can connect that way also. If you purchase a wireless package on the ship, you can use that, but be careful with usage. I usually keep cellular roaming off. Then log on to wireless, get all the mail downloaded, and log out of wireless. Then read the mail while disconnected. Write any responses and let them sit in the outbox. When done, log back onto wireless and let the outbox get emptied, then log off wireless again. Be sure you are disconnected your last night. Nothing like coming back to US port and your phone suddenly connects and starts beeping to tell you about new messages. Thus will usually happen about 4:00 am. I know from experience...... Let us know what you think of Bermuda and your T-Mobile experience. We are going in August (2014). Gordon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM38Rob Posted May 10, 2014 #4 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Cell service is via Digicell in Bermuda. I used my T-Mobile cell phone to call home and reception was good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srice Posted May 11, 2014 #5 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Cell service is via Digicell in Bermuda. I used my T-Mobile cell phone to call home and reception was good. I'm new to T-Mobile and would like to know if there is a charge for phone calls to the U S from Bermuda on the Simple Choice Plan. From what I understand there is no charge for texting and data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM38Rob Posted May 11, 2014 #6 Share Posted May 11, 2014 I'm new to T-Mobile and would like to know if there is a charge for phone calls to the U S from Bermuda on the Simple Choice Plan. From what I understand there is no charge for texting and data. I have the Select Value UNL Talk 20. "Unlimited international web and text while roaming in 100+ countries with a flat rate of $0.20 per min for voice" included in this plan. The calls I made earlier in the week while in Bermuda have not yet appeared on my account, but looks like I'll be paying 20 cents per minute. Not sure about the Simple Choice Plan. I just logged into my account and clicked the "Plan" tab to more details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srice Posted May 11, 2014 #7 Share Posted May 11, 2014 I have the Select Value UNL Talk 20. "Unlimited international web and text while roaming in 100+ countries with a flat rate of $0.20 per min for voice" included in this plan. The calls I made earlier in the week while in Bermuda have not yet appeared on my account, but looks like I'll be paying 20 cents per minute. Not sure about the Simple Choice Plan. I just logged into my account and clicked the "Plan" tab to more details. Thanks for the reply. I will do some more checking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM38Rob Posted May 23, 2014 #8 Share Posted May 23, 2014 I have the Select Value UNL Talk 20. "Unlimited international web and text while roaming in 100+ countries with a flat rate of $0.20 per min for voice" included in this plan. The calls I made earlier in the week while in Bermuda have not yet appeared on my account, but looks like I'll be paying 20 cents per minute. Not sure about the Simple Choice Plan. I just logged into my account and clicked the "Plan" tab to more details. Just got my bill. So nice only paying 20 cents a minute.:) My bill was only an extra $5 (for 25 minutes) instead of an extra $50 back in October (Bahamas) before they changed the rate plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM38Rob Posted May 23, 2014 #9 Share Posted May 23, 2014 Cell service is via Digicell in Bermuda. I used my T-Mobile cell phone to call home and reception was good. The roaming charges for Bermuda are listed as "Jamaica (Digicel)". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markboston35 Posted April 27, 2019 #10 Share Posted April 27, 2019 This is an old post what’s the current situation? From my research it seems cellone is the one you want to force your phone to use as digicell is limited to 3g. Is this still the case? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClevelandCruisin Posted May 20, 2019 #11 Share Posted May 20, 2019 On 4/27/2019 at 2:16 PM, markboston35 said: This is an old post what’s the current situation? From my research it seems cellone is the one you want to force your phone to use as digicell is limited to 3g. Is this still the case? Leaving June 2nd on the Escape. Guess I'll find out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markboston35 Posted June 10, 2019 #12 Share Posted June 10, 2019 On 5/19/2019 at 11:45 PM, ClevelandCruisin said: Leaving June 2nd on the Escape. Guess I'll find out. How is/was your experince? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles4515 Posted June 12, 2019 #13 Share Posted June 12, 2019 My AT&T iPhone is roaming today in Bermuda on my $10 a day travel pass. Digicel LTE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClevelandCruisin Posted June 12, 2019 #14 Share Posted June 12, 2019 We just got back from Bermuda, tmobile service was terrible. Sucks your battery dry in no time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markboston35 Posted June 12, 2019 #15 Share Posted June 12, 2019 What phone do you have? Did you have data roaming enabled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClevelandCruisin Posted June 12, 2019 #16 Share Posted June 12, 2019 2 minutes ago, markboston35 said: What phone do you have? Did you have data roaming enabled? Yes tmobile one plan. You only get 2g in Bermuda if you're lucky. I have a Samsung s9+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markboston35 Posted June 13, 2019 #17 Share Posted June 13, 2019 Did you turn on data roaming in settings? You need to do this to be able to get on the networks in Bermuda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiojw Posted July 22, 2019 #18 Share Posted July 22, 2019 I'll be there next week. Will report on speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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