TxMom: Phone suspension is where the line/account can be cancelled or put on hold while stationed overseas or deployed. My sailor's phone is still on our family plan (AT&T) and he is now stationed in Japan. We suspended his line for the 2 years as he won't be using his US cell phone while there. I know Verizon has something similar and I am sure Sprint and others do too. AT&T actually calls it a "cancellation of the line and hold phone number" but it translates to suspending the line. When he returns to the US, we will reactive his line and he will have is US phone number back. Here is an AT&T webpage to give you an idea of the process. https://www.att.com/esupport/article.html#!/wireless/KM1045509
TxMom, Since your daughter is stationed in the U.S. She should get a letter from her commanding officer saying that she is assigned to the William P. Lawrence. Then when the ship leaves port she just needs to notify the phone company. Which ever company that you have, most will give a military suspension. There is no charge for the suspension, and when she gets back she just picks up where she left off. She should get the letter soon, so that when she leaves it will be in place. Your phone company should have an e-mail address that she can send it to.
Remind her that if they are only going to be gone for a month, and she doesn't want to suspend her phone that she should leave it off. Otherwise it may "ping" off a foreign countries tower and she may get a huge charge for overseas call.
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TxMom: Phone suspension is where the line/account can be cancelled or put on hold while stationed overseas or deployed. My sailor's phone is still on our family plan (AT&T) and he is now stationed in Japan. We suspended his line for the 2 years as he won't be using his US cell phone while there. I know Verizon has something similar and I am sure Sprint and others do too. AT&T actually calls it a "cancellation of the line and hold phone number" but it translates to suspending the line. When he returns to the US, we will reactive his line and he will have is US phone number back. Here is an AT&T webpage to give you an idea of the process. https://www.att.com/esupport/article.html#!/wireless/KM1045509
Nov 14, 2018
Bandmom
TxMom, Since your daughter is stationed in the U.S. She should get a letter from her commanding officer saying that she is assigned to the William P. Lawrence. Then when the ship leaves port she just needs to notify the phone company. Which ever company that you have, most will give a military suspension. There is no charge for the suspension, and when she gets back she just picks up where she left off. She should get the letter soon, so that when she leaves it will be in place. Your phone company should have an e-mail address that she can send it to.
Remind her that if they are only going to be gone for a month, and she doesn't want to suspend her phone that she should leave it off. Otherwise it may "ping" off a foreign countries tower and she may get a huge charge for overseas call.
Just food for thought.
Nov 14, 2018
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