Wireless Phone

I still think a land based phone is a good idea. You can get an easy dial up server if you choose to.. .However I have Cingular wireless and I can call (and be called by other wireless users) without additional charge to any place in the states.

If you are getting wireless service on island it might not give you as good a long distance or roaming plan. If you have a land based phone you should get phone cards that will give you very economical long distance.

It is likely that you will have to do the long and slow dance necessary to get a land phone hooked up....

you say that the wireless service on island might not have as good of service plans...where do you get it then? Can the Cingular store in my town here give me a number for down there? (Puerto Rico i guess?) My Verizon contract is up soon, and id rather switch to a company that is available both here in PA and down there. anyone ever signed up for Cingular in the states and just had the number switched when they moved?

If you go through Cingular or Sprint, the plans should be the same. At least they were for me when I switched to Sprint. If you switch before you come, you could elect to keep your PA number... then at least you would have caller ID! (For some reason, when you have a St Thomas area code, the ID only picks up other customers on the same wireless network you are using). Although, it is nice to have a phone in the local area code, and in that case you can just switch it when u get there. St Thomas has it's own, it is not the same as PR.

I would highly recommend a Sprint phone over Cingular. Cingular's service is not up to par as yet, although they have been here almost the longest. You can get a local number from Sprint if you sign up in the states.
Ronnie

My wife has Sprint and I have Cingular, and they both work well. When her's doesn't have a good signal, mine does. And vice versa. A friendofmine just moved back here yesterday, and he got his Sprint service in the States with a 340 area code.

If you are going to need dial-up for your computer, you will need to call Innovative as soon as you get an apartment. Can't do it beforehand. If the apartment has a dial tone, you can have your phone in a day or two. If no dial tone, it might be a month or more. The phone company is really busy right now, as we have had a lot of rain in the last month and lots of phones get screwed up. My landlord's phone went out about 2 weeks ago (mine's fine) and they won't be coming out till the 26th of next month.

We switched to Cingular before my husband moved down, I am still in Wisconsin. The reception is decent there, depending on where he is standing. But as far as phone fees, it is local for him to call me at home or on my cell. Also no big deal to switch numbers to a local number down there. The whole process went smoothly enough for him, and I hope it will for me also in the next week or two.

Gerren

didnt cingular join with ATT wireless? has that affected service at all? maybe made it better?

as of this morning SBC is in talks to aquire AT &T,they are being pretty quite about any future plans

does verizon work well out there in St. Thomas with no extra fees?

Hello Ann,

Verizon works for some people without extra roaming fees and then some have said no go had fees. They aren't a provider here so work off another's network, Cingular I think. If you are moving here, get Cingular or Sprint PCS. The two other providers here are local; Centennial and Innovative (which is also the telephone company).

--Islander

Hi, I have T-Mobile and they are confident that their phones work there. Anyone have any experience with them?