Has anyone been on a Royal Caribbean cruise since Sept '06 and used their Cingular phone?
I know that all Royal Caribbean cruise ships have their own cell towers as of Sept 2006. Cingular has a partnership with them and when you use your Cingular phone while connecting through the ship's cell tower you are charged an exhorbitant $2.49/min. I would like to know
(1) if the alpha tag (where it says 'Cingular' on the phone) changes when your phone switches to the ship's cell tower, and
(2) can anyone confirm if the ship's cell tower is turned off when you are in port? The Cingular CSR suggested leaving my phone off until I am a mile or two from the ship to make sure my phone doesn't connect to the ship's cell tower; however, I would imagine there would be a lot of pissed off dock workers if they had to worry about their phones accidentally connecting to a cruise ship's cell tower.
Thanks.
Best advice in these situations is to set your phone to "manual select network" I live close to the Canada US boarder and have to be carfule what GSM network I am on.
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