using a phone card with cellphone

[texasnana]

someone in my town said i could use a phone card to make long distance calls home. By using the phone card it cuts the cost down on the cell phone and use the mintues etc on the calling card. By passes the ship phone system. Is this correct? i have tmobile and it is like 5.00 a mintue..

 

Do they have pay phones on hte ship that can use a phone card ?????

[texasnana]

sorry about all the posts ... all this ice in Texas must be messing with my internet service.. so sorry hope the monitors can remove the extra posts...

[megr1125]

once you use your cell phone, you are already paying for air time. while it may cut down on the long distance charge, it is not much of a savings.

 

most phone cards (like the AT&T ones from Target) can be used internationally...you may get less minutes and sometimes there is a fee from using a pay phone. BUT it is still a decent deal.

 

You can't use them on the ship without paying the ship to shore fees.

[wraithe]

There's no way to bypass the ship's phone system, since you have to use the satellite system for any call, whether it's on the ship's phone or your cell. So a phone card isn't going to do anything for you except cost you $5.00/minute for the cell phone, and whatever it cost you for the card as well. The least expensive thing to do is use email on the ship (athough if you don't have a laptop, it can get just as expensive as a quick cell phone call, since you're paying 50 cents/minute while waiting to get to your email site, wait for it to open, read mail, and then reply, while the clock is running), and international calling from the ports on your cell phone. Even cheaper in port, usually there are calling stations at the piers, where you can call the states for 10 cents/minute, or thereabouts.

[texasnana]

so wireless internet on a laptop is 50 cents a mintue?? is there wireless in the cabins or a centeral area??

[TomandSue]

so wireless internet on a laptop is 50 cents a mintue?? is there wireless in the cabins or a centeral area??

 

The $.50 per minute is for using ships computers. If you want unlimited internet on your laptop, will cost you $100 per week. If you can get it on your ship.

[wraithe]

so wireless internet on a laptop is 50 cents a mintue?? is there wireless in the cabins or a centeral area??

 

With the exception of Freedom, Wi-Fi is in hot spots, usually about 6 of them on the ship, library, business center, Centrum (multiple decks), solarium, and cyber cafe. It's 50 cents/min or package prices of $25 for 60 minutes, $35 for 90 minutes, $50 for 150 minutes and unused minutes are non-refundable.

 

The Voyager and Radiance class ships have the capability of in cabin dial up service called Cyber Cabin, it's 44 Kbaud and requires that you have a modem for your computer.