[gsm On The The Ship] Superfast And Others

[Przemolog]

Originally Posted by AndreA

No, on the ship I had only 1 network (Siminn; 274 01 thanks to my Netmonitor on 6630 ) and I had automatically roaming.

I think that foreigner networks can't understand to be in a mixed satellite-gsm system and so you have the normal price as usual in roaming international.

Hmm, I thought that they could because "on ships" networks are "fake MVNO" but if they aren't ...

Originally Posted by AndreA

For me it's strange that in Poland they thought a different price for "OceanCell" (this is name for the service of Siminn and Superfast), I suppose that a polish customer on a Superfast ship don't pay more that usually in Iceland.

I haven't tried this roaming by myself (and I don't anyone in Poland who has) - just quoted info from roaming tables. But what you say sounds reasonable.

Originally Posted by AndreA

So I'm sure that if I'll use with a my NOT US sim card on the "Royal Caribbean" ship I won't pay more than using normally TMob/Cingular networks.

Quite possible.

Originally Posted by AndreA

About Tim and Costa ships... no, they use the normal 222 01 but they have a special price only for Tim customers (it's incredibile I know, but a international roamer using "Tim on the ship" will pay less than a Tim customer) because I think that their billing service can't do more with int.l roamers... :construction:

And can Wind and Voda Italy roam on TIM on the ship?

And as to GSM-on-Ships roamings...

In Poland, Idea-Orange-To-Be offers the largest choice of these king of roamings. The others than Simin are:
P&T Luxembourg - "Val de Loire" ship (France-Ireland line(?), not mentioned on the Idea site) - fees the same as Siminn of Superfast ferries
TIM Costa Crocere - incoming 14,68 PLN + rate Poland-Italy, outgoing 16,88 PLN, SMS 1,41 PLN.

The latest case is the most interesting. It's Marinetime Communications Partner - MCP. It uses +47 country code (Norway) but its network is 901 12 (virtual country? - Thuraya is 901 05). In the Idea roaming list it's the cheapest one 6,19 PLN/min + 0,68 setup fee, SMS 3,38 PLN, and what is most interesting, incoming calls are charged at 8,38 PLN/min (Poland-rest of the world rate) without operator extra's incoming charge,