Cell Phones On Islands

[schinz]

Can someone tell me if Verizon cell phone service is available in St. Thomas, St. Mateen, Barbados, St. Lucia or St. Kitts?

[chessbriar]

I can't speak for Verizon, but we had Sprint service on St Thomas. It was a blast calling work from poolside. MY guess is the other islands you would have to have some sort of international coverage. With St Thomas being a USVI, they have the US services. I know we offered to our American crew the use of our phone as we had no roaming and it gave them a chance to call home free.

[dkjretired]

We have Verizon and had service in St. Thomas, no roaming charges. Didn't make it to St. Martin due to medical emergency but also had service in Nassau and San Juan.

Don

[sgrissom]

Had Verizon service in St. Thomas but not St Martin. Didn't work in St. Kitts or St Lucia, but that was several years ago.

[kitty9]

This past January our Verizon cell only worked in St. Thomas and not any of the other islands you asked about. You need an international cell phone for any islands that aren't a part of the US, like the US Virgin Islands are. For some reason the cell also worked in the Bahamas.

[johninri]

Sprint works on all the islands mentioned but with roaming in all but St. Thomas and San Juan. We have friends with Verizon and I believe it has the same functionality. You just have to make sure before you leave that you are set up for international roaming.

[signman]

Cingular works in St. Thomas and San Juan

[Nitemare]

Verizon can probably tell you best. Have you called Customer Service?

[Bob M.]

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[tprime76]

Agreed, but the service DOES play a major part in determining whether or not you will get charged incredibly high roaming rates.

[smdubowsky]

From my experience, Verizon works in San Juan, PR and St Thomas automatically. I was also able to get the phone to work in St. Maartin, but had to make local arrangements that cost an additional 10 dollars or so. Hope this helps.

Scott