dont bring your cellphone

dont bring your cellphone on motorcycle trips.

from my trip to L.A........

airtime roaming charges $155

text messaging roaming charges $75

holy ****.

You are from another country, if you were from the US and traveled in the US, you would have been fine! At least with T-mobile, AT&T and Verizon. International calls hurt the wallet!!!

Next time, stop once you're over the border and buy a 'pay as you go' phone. Call the people who need to know where you are so they have the temporary number. Then use it as you need to.

If you run out of time, 'refill' the phone.

Toss it when you are done with your trip. You can buy a phone with service for one or two months for as little as $30 USD. This is usually a $2 charge for any day you use the phone, plus 10 cents a minute or so for the length of calls you make.

RJ2112 said:

Next time, stop once you're over the border and buy a 'pay as you go' phone. Call the people who need to know where you are so they have the temporary number. Then use it as you need to.

If you run out of time, 'refill' the phone.

Toss it when you are done with your trip. You can buy a phone with service for one or two months for as little as $30 USD. This is usually a $2 charge for any day you use the phone, plus 10 cents a minute or so for the length of calls you make.

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I needed you to tell me this BEFORE my trip! Bah!

Ah well, that is a really good idea for next time. Damned roaming. What does that even mean? It's satelites god damn it.

lonesoldier84 said:

I needed you to tell me this BEFORE my trip! Bah!

Ah well, that is a really good idea for next time. Damned roaming. What does that even mean? It's satelites god damn it.

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But once you enter another country they need to move the satellite just to pick up your call. Now they've got this satellite roaming the sky just for your calls and it ain't cheap to be moving those babies around, someone has to pay for it.

The satelite doesn't have to do squat. It just needs to sit there and be a fat ass useless satelite. My cell phone will find a way to link to it. The satelite is not going to move or do anything special. Not in the slightest. I tmight scratch its ass but thats about it.

Turn it on to airplane mode, or tuen data roaming off, still useable when need it.

You actually pay roaming fees in that neck of the woods ?? My phone bill is capped in Oz , $79/ month gives me $400 worth of calls & TXT :thumbup:

lonesoldier84 said:

I needed you to tell me this BEFORE my trip! Bah!

Ah well, that is a really good idea for next time. Damned roaming. What does that even mean? It's satelites god damn it.

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Um not to be a smart*ss, but unless you have an oversized phone that has to be outside with a clear and unobstructed view of the sky to work and costs hundreds of dollars a month to use, then you do not have a satellite phone. Standard (and "Smartphone") phones all operate off of radio towers. Sure you have the option of WIFI, but when your riding around and pull over to make a call your phone is using those really high towers.

Roaming costs a lot of money because your cell service carrier is using some other companies tower and transfers the call to their service tower. The company that lets you use their tower has a contract agrement with your service provider and they get a cut of your sweet sweet $$$.

Cellular phones are very short range walkie talkies.... they only reach from one tower to the next.... you are in the 'cell' defined by the towers you are in reach of. Each cell can handle hundreds of individual calls, because they are all digitally encoded. That's why the voice quality is quite bad. Think of your conversation being stripped down to the lowest possible quality MP3 and you're pretty close to how the things work.

Your phone isn't using satellite unless it is specifically a satellite telephone. Satellite phones are generally used where you need a phone in remote area that doesn't have cell phone towers.

Our phones use communication towers and we pretty much need to be in Line Of Sight of the signals from these towers. Basically our phones are intermittently communicating with various towers that track where you are with regard to tower to tower. Not talking about GPS that's different.
My brother has incurred big usage bills when traveling abroad. Now he calls his phone carrier and they set up special rates when he heads out now. Much, much cheaper! Make the call to your phone co. and see what they can arrange when you need to travel. :rockon:

Don't worry about it anymore Lone. With your new rocket (I mean bike) you'll be back at home before your cellphone even knows you left! :BLAA:

you people really need to stop showcasing where i'm wrong and just agree roaming charges are bull****. haha

75 bucks for texting is lame as hell.

Actually I agree partially with the Lone's original post. Don't leave the phone at home, but leave it alone, and only use it when you need it or are in your own service provider's coverage zone. This way you can still use the GPS (which will still use some data transfer unless you set it not to, in which case it has to be a dedicated GPS also), and it's there for emergencies.

And yes. Considering that someone from the company that you are roaming on, is currently roaming in your company's zone, so they should cancel out, then it doesn't cost anyone really. It is just a scam to get more money off of you and you are correct in saying that it sux 84ll$:thumbup:.

Mobile phones are evil anyway, and should be ignored as much as possible...they just end up telling you that you should be doing something else, other than riding...

International roaming is a scam...price wise!

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