Each major port has a recreation room and kitchen sponsored by a local and national religious organization which give foreign seaman a place to relax and make phonecalls home.
These microcells are small devices, about the size of a DSL or cable modem, that create a local cellular service zone up to about 40 feet from the device in which you can make and place cell phonecalls and, if you have a smartphone, use data services to access the Internet.