DREUBEN@eagle.wesleyan.edu) (DOUGLAS SCOTT REUBEN) (10/07/90)
Does anyone who uses an "A" (non-wireline) cell system know what the codes are to activate/deactivate "Roam America" service? We are supposedly getting it in my home system, by no one seems to know anything about it. Also, I noticed that SNET Cellular (the Connecticut "B"/wireline carrier) has a program called "Roam USA". SNET customers who roam outside the SNET system get charged a *flat* $.60 per minute WHEREVER they go in North America, and NO DAILY ROAM CHARGES! (BTW, SNET also has Follow Me Roaming.) If their literature which advertises this is true, I might just get an account with them and use SNET for my FMR calls instead of GTE in San Francisco. (IE, forward my calls to the SNET number, and then use SNET for all my FMR calls ... after about $20 in daily charges a month saved I figure I can break even, not to mention the lower roaming rates!) Does SNET absorb the daily charges themselves, or do they have a special agreement which waives the daily charge for SNET roamers in a foriegn area? One final note: NYNEX/Boston cellular charges AIRTIME for activation and deactivation of Follow Me Roaming. Not only that, but since they charge a $3(?) daily charge, you get billed $3.75 PER DAY, even if you don't make or receive ANY real calls! I called GTE to complain about this, since their literature clearly states that all FMR activate/deactivate calls are free of charge, and they were very quick to remove all the FMR charges ... They said they would also check into this with NYNEX/Boston, since they never heard of this happening before. Well, if anyone at this point can remember my original question, please drop me a note...! :-) Thanks in advance, Doug dreuben@eagle.wesleyan.edu dreuben@wesleyan.bitnet