Well, We weren't planning on taking a laptop with us. Too much "overhead".
It's a vacation,
So maybe i'll follow the advice of SWMBO and leave the cells etc. home.
.. I'll Try (LOL)

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"Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message
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> "Remove This" <spamdumpster@verizon.net> wrote in news:7szPg.2511$Se.1348
> @trndny03:
>
>> Does anyone know if my VZ cellphone will work in Barbados ?
>>
>>
>>
>
> Nope, but Barbados does have internet service either Ethernet or Wifi in
> the hotels for you to use.......so.......(c; Unfortunately, Skype
> doesn't have one of its cheap hotspots in Barbados, now called "Skype
> Zones", where Skype has made a deal for its users to use hotspots you
> have to pay for, without charge for Skype customers to use Skype. This
> service is $7.95/month and is something new for Skype. There's already
> 20,000 paid hotspots online, 2800+ in the USA. UPS Stores are all Skype
> Zone hotspots, now. Bahamas has one hotel, Aruba has 8, more are signing
> up every month as deals are made.
>
> Download Skype for free from www.skype.com and install it on your laptop
> and all the people's computers back home you want to talk to....
>
> At your hotel, connect up to the hotel's wifi any way you can....or to
> some cyber cafe they love in small countries.
>
> SKYPE 'EM FOR FREE!....anywhere on the planet the internet goes....(c;
>
> There, I said it....and probably am gonna pay for it, dearly...hee hee.
>
> There's another Skype trick which will cost you $28/YEAR.....Skype
> In...at home. Sign up for a Skype In phone number before you leave for
> Barbados, there's one in every major US city or one close to where you
> live. Tell your friends to call that number while you're gone, instead
> of trying to cellphone you across the incompatible, overpriced monsters
> cellular companies have become. In Barbados, just boot your computer
> online and boot Skype. (I like the Linksys CIT200 wireless Skype phone
> plugged into the USB port on my laptop, myself. It's base station has
> about a 300' range out on the beach by the hotel patio bar. It'll go way
> out on the beach if you get a room on the beach side and put the CIT200
> base unit on the 10th floor balcony! There, now THEY can call YOU for
> FREE from any phone back home, just dialing your Skype In phone number.
> YOU will be paying nothing to take these calls until January, 2007, when
> the price goes way up to 2.1c/minute.
>
> Calls from your Skype to any Barbados telephone, even from Barbados, is
> $US0.20/min deducted from your precharged Skype Out account (no monthly
> charges, just usage). Still MUCH cheaper than a Barbados rental
> cellphone I bet! I've never been overseas on Skype, yet, but they MAY
> charge you 20c/min to call your Skype in Barbados from your Skype In in
> the USA. I think that's the way it's supposed to work. Even then, find
> a 20c/min phone in Barbados to the states where the other folks can call
> you for free....
>
> Skype is cheap...Skype In, your own number, is $28/YEAR!.....
>
> If you just need to call the office or home from Barbados, use Skype-to-
> Skype, which is always FREE, computer to computer and forget all the rest
> of the stuff. Just set up a time schedule when both ends will be online
> and available to accept calls between you. The hotel may charge you
> internet access fees down there.....but that's cheap compared to
> international cellular phone dialing charges!
>
> Of course, we'll expect bottles of some great rums upon your return. Our
> Customs Service spies will notify us how many bottles they found in your
> luggage for us....(c; You won't be allowed back in unless you bring us
> some....
>
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