Cell phone use in the Bahamas

[solar]

I phoned Bell this morning to activate roaming in the Bahamas on a Candian Bell cell phone. They say that Bell does not have a roaming agreement anymore as of October 1, 2006 even though they use Canadian systems built and designed by Nortel in Canada.
I did not ask if they did the same for other foreign countries such as the US.
This is a problem as using satellite or other forms of phone service other than Batelco is illegal.

 

[Radioactive]

"problem as using satellite or other forms of phone service other than Batelco is illegal."

SatPhone ( Globalstar? ) illegal?

Got more info?

 

[Sportdeck]

This is from the BaTelCo website www.btcbahamas.com under the travelers center link - you should probably check with Verizon and/or Sprint to see how and where the roaming agreement works.

BTC CDMA Roaming Partners

COUNTRY CARRIER LAUNCH (VOICE) LAUNCH (DATA) LAUNCH (SMS)
USA Verizon Wireless May 2007 — —
USA Sprint PCS June 2007 — —

 

[mixman]

That will be interesting to see. We're hoping to be there in April '08. I'll have my Verizon CDMA phone and my wife will have her work AT&T GSM phone. If BaTelCo offers something that's actually sane, we might try it. But at this point I'm going with a serious WiFi booster and GlobalStar (even though their network is hurting right now, but for $50/month unlimited, it's worth it).