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Re: International Phone
[Re: CottageGirl]
#118386
01/24/2017 11:20 AM
01/24/2017 11:20 AM
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Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 1,953 St. John, USVI
RickG
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Posts: 1,953
St. John, USVI
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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
S/V Echoes, 2003 Beneteau 423 Grenada
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Re: International Phone
[Re: stevelon]
#118388
01/24/2017 09:20 PM
01/24/2017 09:20 PM
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Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 3,228 Somewhere out there
kneafseym
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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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