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Hello! I am coming to St John next week for a wedding and want to know if I will be able to use my Blackberry phone while I am there.
I am a T Mobile customer and I have called T Mobile and they said they could not guarantee I would get a signal. But my question is that since I have a quad band phone (Blackberry) and have the International Roaming, shouldn't I be able to roam on the networks that I hear are down there such as Cingular and Verizon?
Has anyone who has T Mobile and a Blackberry and quad band/GSM phone been to St John and have it work okay?
Any advice would be helpful!
Thanks, Anne
There have been several posts on this forum about cellphone service here and you might want to do a research on the subject right here. All those high-tech gizmos and quad whatevers are completely beyond my comprehension but others might contribute.
You're coming to STJ for a wedding. Maybe you can just simply relax and chill? Shut off the cell and the blackberry, blueberry whatever and RELAX AND ENJOY! The real world will not fall apart while you enjoy your visit here and will still be there when you return. Cheers!
Dear STT Resident:
Thank you for your response! I have checked and have not really seen a definitive answer for if TMobile is supported there in the last couple of months or if I will be able to roam onto another network on a Blackberry phone with the quad band/GSM functionality.
I am all for not working on the vacation (it is a wedding after all!!:^) ) but we all (the 36 people coming for the wedding across 5 villas) plan on using our cell phones to communicate (esp since we will not always be at the villas and with the 2 days before the wedding of prep work).
But I am looking forward to the relax and chill part. Next Thursday (the day I leave for St John) can not come fast enough!
Anne 🙂
Berkele612,
I used my blackberry last year on the islands (T-mobile). It got this funny little symbol on the top left (where it shows us we have messages) and it stayed on there for a good six months. It worked though and no extra charges. However, I do not use my blackberry as a phone, I only use it for e-mail. I have Sprint cell service and that worked also.
If T-mobile for messages worked I don't see why the phone wouldn't either but, alas, I am not an expert on this stuff. My blackberry doesn't get a signal at my house sometimes. . .
I don't know anything about the Blackberry, I just have a Samsung flip-phone, but I have T-Mobile service and my phone worked really well in the immediate Cruz Bay area when I was there in December. It also worked on Gifft Hill, where we were staying. I can't speak to the other areas of the island since I didn't use the phone there. I didn't have any roaming charges, either. We were on St. John for the holidays, and used the phone to call family members at home in the chilly northeast (poor things!).
berkele612,
Our T-Mobile phone worked well in Cruz Bay too (June 2005), but couldn't get a signal where we were staying high above Coral Bay.
Have a great trip!
LMarie
For what it's worth......
My (T-Mobile) Blackberyy/Cell Phone (Business) worked fine on the East End STT.
F.I.
in the past two years i have been there several times and my T MOBILE works great and no extra charges...i have the regular cheap 'national' plan....it worked on st thomas and st john just fine with only a few slow spots between east end and charlotte am....you should be fine!
Check out the "TMobil Warning" posted on the below website.
My Blackberry would not pick up the data option last year, phone portion worked well in some spots, no reception in others. It's possible that the towers have been updated to accept data but I wouldn't bet on it.
