Cruise ship cell phone rates?

[Stu]

Burning up ship Internet credit, I did a VOIP call which worked pretty good as well.

[rfranzq]

Originally Posted by Stu

Burning up ship Internet credit, I did a VOIP call which worked pretty good as well.

How much was the ship charging for minute?

[davidtheprof]

going to be on a 7 night Caribbean cruise at the end of the year, including Mexico, so wondering about the Lime sim card - seems to be good for incoming calls and texting, but very expensive for outgoing, around $3/min, (unless to other Lime customers).

Tru sim seems to have generally better rates around the region. Better than my old Geosim, anyway!

as for Wifi calling, the ship claims to block Skype, but I wonder if the data rate is too slow anyway when at sea....or if I could get another VOIP service to work (Truphone, Nimbuzz, etc.)

the per minute rate for wifi is 75c/min, dropping to 50c if you buy a block of minutes. (don't know why they don't charge by the MB!)

[rfranzq]

Originally Posted by davidtheprof

going to be on a 7 night Caribbean cruise at the end of the year, including Mexico,

As a reminder AT&T prepaid 'GoPhone' has 25cents a minute rates from Mexico [and 25cent SMS send/20cents receive]. That SIM would only work in Mexico so YMWV.

Originally Posted by davidtheprof

Tru sim seems to have generally better rates around the region. Better than my old Geosim, anyway!

I am quite pleased with my Tru SIMs. If the rates are OK with you and it works where you are going that is great. Makes a good secondary US SIM also. About 10 months ago I was on a Mexico cruise and was able to receive SMS on the ship at sea with my Tru SIM. [free rreceive]. I was too cheap to test what its per minute call rates and SMS send rates were. You could test them!