Phones

[GACouple116]

So having my Cell phone with me, do I get charged International roaming rates?

anyone with AT&T know if thre is anything special I have to do, so I do not come home to a huge Bill?

Thanks

[rentman]

We were there 2 weeks ago. I used my Droid phone at the pool with a voip app called truphone. worked pretty well at .02 a minute. Also was able to use it in the room and by the lobby bar.

[olderII]

AT&T has a Mexico package.

[TwoDV8s]

I copied this from an earlier post on this site ... we followed these instructions in July and the phones worked fine with no bill surprises.

I've used an iPhone 3G and 4 at Desire. I use AT&T. The data charges incurred receiving and sending emails and using the Internet are what you want to avoid.

Here's what I do: On your phone, Go to General, Network, Turn Enable 3G OFF (to reduce battery drain) and Turn Cellular Data OFF (also turns off Data Roaming). Turning off Data Roaming will block emails, browsing and downloads.

Go to Mail, Go to Fetch New Data and Turn Push OFF. The phone should be set to Manually at the bottom. IF Push is normally OFF on your phone, and Fetch is used, set it to Manually, instead of Fetch every 15 minutes, for example.

Turn Wi-Fi “ONâ€

[mikeinnj]

When we were there we met a gentleman who got a text from AT&T warning about the sudden increase in his bill.

What we did was place the phone on airplane mode (shuts everything down) and then just turned on wi-fi so that anything done was on wi-fi and at no cost to us.