Norwegian Cruise Line Bans Walkie-Talkies, Alternatives, and Different Wi-Fi Packages
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- Today I discuss the recent ban of walkie-talkies by Norwegian Cruise Line and what alternatives you have for keeping in touch while on ship.
Also, I describe the way the Wi-Fi works onboard including the different Wi-Fi packages you can buy.
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I Cruise with Norwegian four to five times a year. The primary reason I get the premium Wi-Fi is Wi-Fi calling that works flawlessly at sea without incurring and roaming charges. Although the Wi-Fi is slow compared to what you have at home I find zoom and teams calls to work without any issues.
I'm glad you've had good luck with it. My point is, if you need to be on a zoom call and you're going to be in trouble if you're not (because the ship is between satellites, for example) then maybe you shouldn't depend on it.
I still need to know if the ban of Walkie Talkies is for a specific band or all.
Because there are commercial Walkie Talkies and there are Family band Walkie Talkies.
I sent an email to my PCC to see if it is ALL Walkie Talkies or just the commercial band which might interfere with onboard staff comms.
If NCL does not know there are 2 bands and one would not interfere with their staff comms they might need to learn and think about allowing ones that won't cause them problems. Talking about those terminal people not knowing how to know one band Walkie Talkie from another. I expect them to be lazy and go with banning all.
If you do forget to logout and all your minutes disappear, you can go to the Internet Cafe, wait in the line, and the tech person can restore your minutes. Basically, they verify that you weren't actively using the internet and then they restore the minutes.
just an educated guess- frequency allocation in other countries is different compared to the USA. Meaning the walkie talkie frequencies legal in the us are not legal in other countries.
That's a good point.
Why? Greed.
With Starlink, it should work great.
I've been on a couple cruises not that claimed to have Starlink, and I didn't really notice a difference. Then again, I didn't pay for premium so I didn't try TH-cam, Netflix, etc.