Cruise Ship Roaming

inquisitor · 12-07-2009, 10:34

Yesterday I returned from a cruise with MSC. Allthough MSC published some nuts roaming rates for the onboard GSM network ("On-waves", MCC 284 MNC 08 ) with outgoing calls for € 4.40 + VAT and SMS for € 0.70 + VAT, my British Vodafone PAYG SIM did roam at EU-rates. So outgoing SMS were charged with GBP 0.12 and due to the activated Passport Option incoming calls were absolutely free, whereas German O2 customers paid € 1.59/min for incoming calls. Unfortunatley outgoing calls were blocked for my British Vodafone PAYG SIM.
Anyway with Callbacks through poivy.com I could call Germany for € 0.09 (landlines) or 0.17 (mobiles) from aboard the vessel, while others were charged some € 5.00/min.

FBlack_111 · 12-07-2009, 20:38

On a cruise to the Med last year I used both my U.S. Verizon CDMA phone and a Passport SIM in an unlocked gsm phone. Verizon charged $2.49 a minute. Occasionally the Passport charged at under 99 cents a minute even way out to sea. Usually they charged must more. Many days while on the ship, (but not too far from land) the Passport SIM could pull in Greek, Italian and French cell providers. So calls came in for free and cost about 49 cents out.

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inquisitor (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,399 Join Date: 15 Nov 2006 Country:	12-07-2009, 10:34 Yesterday I returned from a cruise with MSC. Allthough MSC published some nuts roaming rates for the onboard GSM network ("On-waves", MCC 284 MNC 08 ) with outgoing calls for € 4.40 + VAT and SMS for € 0.70 + VAT, my British Vodafone PAYG SIM did roam at EU-rates. So outgoing SMS were charged with GBP 0.12 and due to the activated Passport Option incoming calls were absolutely free, whereas German O2 customers paid € 1.59/min for incoming calls. Unfortunatley outgoing calls were blocked for my British Vodafone PAYG SIM. Anyway with Callbacks through poivy.com I could call Germany for € 0.09 (landlines) or 0.17 (mobiles) from aboard the vessel, while others were charged some € 5.00/min. terminals: Samsung: Galaxy S5 DuoS (G900FD); BLU: Win HD LTE; Nokia: 1200; Asus: Fonepad 7 ME372CG; Huawei data: E3372, Vodafone R201, K3765, E1762; postpaid: O2 on Business XL; prepaid: DE: Aldi Talk, Lidl; UK: 3; BG: MTel, vivacom; RU: MTS; RS: MTS; UAE: du Tourist SIM; INT'L: toggle mobile VoIP: sipgate.de (German DID); sipgate.co.uk (British DID); ukddi.com (British DID); sipcall.ch (Swiss DID); megafon.bg (Bulgarian DID); InterVoip.com

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FBlack_111 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Fan Posts: 171 Join Date: 27 Feb 2008 Country:	12-07-2009, 20:38 On a cruise to the Med last year I used both my U.S. Verizon CDMA phone and a Passport SIM in an unlocked gsm phone. Verizon charged $2.49 a minute. Occasionally the Passport charged at under 99 cents a minute even way out to sea. Usually they charged must more. Many days while on the ship, (but not too far from land) the Passport SIM could pull in Greek, Italian and French cell providers. So calls came in for free and cost about 49 cents out.