Further to Phil's comment, Batelco pretty much has a monopoly there. Incoming calls are charged per minute, but not at international rates. Text messages are like on the order of 15 cents, regular minutes are like $.30 a minute in prime time, less otherwise. Calls within an island group (where you are, to another of them, e.g. anywhere in the Abacoes if you're there, anywhere in the Exumas if you're there, etc.), are considered local charges. Calls from one island group to another are considered international calls, though I don't know if they're as expensive as to the US. US calls are on the order of a dollar a minute. Phones aren't cheap, sim cards are readily available and you can update minutes on the web.
I disagree with the spotty WiFi coverage. Other than in extremely remote areas, it's all over. We've not been without free use anywhere in the Abacos, e.g. - but then, I have a killer system much discussed herein; see www.islandtimepc.com, and my 2009 refit pix in the gallery under upgrades/electronics for an example. I routinely connect under way at over 6 miles; my station in the Abacos (rotating between three sites depending on where I am in Marsh Harbour, otherwise many to choose from) is right at 10 miles away, yet supports Vonage (VoIP) and video Skype. When I'm closer to any of the islands, it's even better. When I was in Georgetown, using the predecessor to this system, with much less talk-back power, I was connecting over a hill to a site several miles away. In the smaller Exumas islands, you may not find the same availability, but in most I found free sites. The only place I paid was in the national park at Warderick Wells as there were no other sources at all (with a 10 mile range, I'd know!). In Norman's, we went to the pub for free wifi, but further downrange, with the exception of WW, we were able to connect to Sampson Cay yacht club from 10 miles north and south. ITPC (above website) will soon be updating their site to include some of my scans; I routinely get more than 20, and frequently more than 50 available sites. I use the cell for convenience; I use WiFi for literally everything else. L8R Skip On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Philip R. McGovern < [email protected]> wrote: > Lee: > > Neither your Verizon cell nor your aircard will work in the Bahamas. Ours > didn't. > > Most folks buy disposable cell phones over there. They aren't cheap, but > they seem to work. > > Most pay phones we tried were out of order. > > There is some wifi service in the populated areas, but it's spotty at best > and expensive. > > Good luck! > > Phil McGovern > s/v Sunshine > PDQ 36 LRC > > > > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Lee Haefele <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What is the current info on cell phone use in Bahamas? I currently have >> Verizon cell phone and Verizon Air Card. I am assuming the cell will be >> over $1/minute to use (And will not work in many areas)and the Air Card >> probably will not work. >> Is there anything I shoud do or buy in the US, or should I get a Batelco >> Cell phone there? Do Batelco cell phones have free incoming calls? >> Lee Haefele >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Liveaboard mailing list >> [email protected] >> To adjust your membership settings over the web >> http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard >> To subscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ >> >> To search the archives >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >> >> The Mailman Users Guide can be found here >> http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > -- Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog The Society for the Preservation of Tithesis commends your ebriated and scrutible use of delible and defatigable, which are gainly, sipid and couth. We are gruntled and consolate that you have the ertia and eptitude to choose such putably pensible tithesis, which we parage. >>Stamp out Sesquipedalianism<<
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