Here is what I do to virtually eliminate roaming charges in BZ. Before you leave, like on the plane on the way out. Go to settings | phone | call forward. Forward your phone to a US Number with voice mail. My voicemail emails me when someone leaves a voice mail, so I know and can listen to it over wifi. If you don't have a voicemail service like this, you can use Skype with a skype in number. You can then leave your phone on without the risk of paying $3.00 per minute when someone leaves you a voice mail. You can still use your phone for outgoing calls in a pinch if you do this. Roughly $3.00 per minute.

As was stated before, make sure you turn data roaming off.

I'm at Grand Caribe and we have pretty good internet, I use a voip line to make most of my outgoing calls. The cell is forwarded to that voip line.

Last edited by MikeW; 07/12/11 09:26 AM.