Victor604
04-28-2008, 02:38 PM
This is for the incoming Rossies:
There are basically two cell-phone carriers available on Dominica - your US phone won't get coverage. B-Mobile has a booth at Ross, next to the Student government association, so it's the carrier that most students choose to go with. Let me urge you to think before signing on with them - there is a plethora of fine print that they don't tell you when you sign up.
My girlfriend and I are on vacation in St. Lucia right now and, apparently, calls from here are $ 8.59 ECD a minute. Roaming charges would have been no problem had we previously been notified of this (if you sign up with B-mobile, make sure to ASK about it - otherwise, they'll tell you that it was your fault for not knowing). There are apparently tons of different networks, and, after speaking with a very impolite service supervisor (who, in her frustration, resorted to racial comments), it seems that they can charge you from whichever network they please. When I tried to ask the supervisor's name, she refused to tell me, and then hung up while I was speaking. Also, unlike the cell phones 're used to in the US, the ones down here have no roaming icon whatsoever. That means that you could potentially drain a $100 EC on a ten minute phone call.
I don't know much about Digicell (the other cell phone carrier), but I can guarantee that, once I'm back on Ross' campus, I'm going to look into switching my provider - customer service like that would never be acceptable back in the states.
There are basically two cell-phone carriers available on Dominica - your US phone won't get coverage. B-Mobile has a booth at Ross, next to the Student government association, so it's the carrier that most students choose to go with. Let me urge you to think before signing on with them - there is a plethora of fine print that they don't tell you when you sign up.
My girlfriend and I are on vacation in St. Lucia right now and, apparently, calls from here are $ 8.59 ECD a minute. Roaming charges would have been no problem had we previously been notified of this (if you sign up with B-mobile, make sure to ASK about it - otherwise, they'll tell you that it was your fault for not knowing). There are apparently tons of different networks, and, after speaking with a very impolite service supervisor (who, in her frustration, resorted to racial comments), it seems that they can charge you from whichever network they please. When I tried to ask the supervisor's name, she refused to tell me, and then hung up while I was speaking. Also, unlike the cell phones 're used to in the US, the ones down here have no roaming icon whatsoever. That means that you could potentially drain a $100 EC on a ten minute phone call.
I don't know much about Digicell (the other cell phone carrier), but I can guarantee that, once I'm back on Ross' campus, I'm going to look into switching my provider - customer service like that would never be acceptable back in the states.