I talked to AT&T today regarding my iPhone for my Conquest cruise. Here's the information. First you must enable the international plan to your phone plan. This costs nothing -- just must be enabled. You can do this to your wireless.att.com account or call them. If you use your iPhone while the ship is out to sea, it will cost you $2.49 a minute. While in port, the rates are different. Jamaica and Grand Cayman are $1.99 a minute, Cozumel is 99 cents a minute. If you plan to use your phone a lot while in port, you can buy a "country" for $5.99 a month, which will lower your per minute rate in Jamaica or Grand Cayman to $1.69 a minute. Each "country" is $5.99. For me, I would not talk enough in port to justify buying the country to save 30 cents a minute. Those people with astronomical bills get zapped for the data used. To prevent this, you must do 2 things to your iPhone. First, go to settings, general, network, and set data roaming to OFF. Next, go to settings, mail/contacts/calendars, then change "fetch new data" to "manually" and "push" to "off". If you have an unlimited texting plan, you can receive texts for free, but it costs 50 cents for everyone you send. Incidentally, if you have your phone turned on and someone calls your phone, it costs you $2.50 even if you don't answer it because it rang. The best way to prevent this is to keep your iphone in airplane mode. What that basically does is turn your iPhone into an iPod touch, meaning you can still use the wifi and play with the apps you have downloaded, but you won't be able to make/accept calls or send/receive texts. You will NOT have access to the ship's wifi unless you purchase minutes from them, but I read in one of the posts that the beaches in Cozumel have free wifi access. My plan? I'm going to keep my phone in airplane mode most of the time, taking it out of airplane mode to check incoming text messages.
