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International Phone #118383
01/23/2017 03:57 PM
01/23/2017 03:57 PM
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St Louis
stevelon Offline OP
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If you are close to ending your phone contract check out Google Fi. Not really advertised yet but looks really good. Also works in the BVI. Interesting concept. All the Best Steve

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Re: International Phone [Re: stevelon] #118384
01/23/2017 04:11 PM
01/23/2017 04:11 PM
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Re: International Phone [Re: stevelon] #118385
01/24/2017 11:13 AM
01/24/2017 11:13 AM
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My son-in-law is considering this phone/plan.

Re: International Phone [Re: CottageGirl] #118386
01/24/2017 11:20 AM
01/24/2017 11:20 AM
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I've been watching Google Fi closely. We had a friend on our boat two weeks ago with a Nexus 5 on Google Fi. There were times when we had great AT&T coverage (not a Google Fi partner) and he had no coverage. He actually had better service near Tortola than he did on the south side of St. John with only AT&T. Sprint has coverage on St. Thomas and most of the north shore of St. John. He was able to use my AT&T mifi for calls and data.

I have pinged folks on the Grenada Cruisers facebook group and there are a few people that are using Fi. T-Mobile global roaming is much more prevalent; it includes 2G data for international roaming, but islands islands no longer have 2G support and people are seeing 3G and LTE speeds with free data roaming.

Fi still only supports the Google devices. The Pixel is a nice Android phone.

I'm watching this, but AT&T is still a good option for us.

Cheers, RickG


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Re: International Phone [Re: RickG] #118387
01/24/2017 03:51 PM
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Thanks for the heads up. Sounded good so I was reluctant to change from att. Think I will stay where I am.

Re: International Phone [Re: stevelon] #118388
01/24/2017 09:20 PM
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Somewhere out there
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tmobile has been great for our international travels. Coverage in St Thomas isn't good, but great in BVI if you force you phone to digicell and not let it get the poor tmo signal in STT.


Mike

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