NW-Bound
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I just got back from an Alaska cruise, and Princess has WiFi, but you have to pay for it, unless you have free minutes as a function of your status.
We got 250 minutes free each , but did not use hardly any.
As far as cellphone service in Alaska, they do not have 4G, and my smartphone did not work. It only worked en route to Vancouver/Victoria because we could hit Washington state towers.
Last year, in our RV trip of a few thousand miles through Alaska and the Yukon, we saw only sporadic cell signals, and these local carriers denied access to our T-Mobile phones.
On the other hand, in our recent 5,000-km drive through Spain and Portugal, the T-Mobile phones worked all the time, albeit with slow Internet access.
When on a ship, the only access to the Internet would be via satellite, and that would be slow (link shared with many people) and expensive (to limit usage). Technology always has limitations.
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