Do cell phones work on cruise ships? T-Mobile?

Question

Do they work in Cozumel and Costa Maya? And on the ship.

Answer 1

It depends on your carrier but the cell phones will work when  you are in port.

Answer 2

Contact T-mobile.  I have sprint and they downloaded an update into my phone and it worked the whole time in Mexico and at sea.  I never lost a signal.  Granted it was $.99 - $2.99 depending on my location, but it was good to have because we did have an emergency while I was gone.

Answer 3

turn it off until you get back to the US. what's so inportant as to interupt your vacation? think about it

Answer 4

You would have to with in range of a communications tower I would think

Answer 5

I have T-Mobile and I did not have service while I was on the ship or on the islands, except for St. Thomas (most likely because it is a U.S. territory). My cousin has Cingular and she had "Cellular at Sea", so she had service (cost $2.25 a minute though).

Call up customer care and see if there's anything they can do so you can have service while you're on vacation. It'll probably cost quite a bit though.

If you can't end up getting service, just be grateful and enjoy the break from all the phone calls! I know I did. :)