On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:27:32 -0400, Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:

>"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.

With Skype you can only talk to one of the other three people who have
it so it really doesn't matter how many wifi places there are in
Barbados.