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BajaGeoff
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Mood: Heading To Baja!!!
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Woody,
They are actually based in San Diego and will deliver the phone to you. When you return home, you put the phone in the mail in a box they provide and
ship it back to them. I am sure you could drop it off too if you wanted. Pretty nice service!
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Bedman
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Location: Orange County, CA.
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WEll.... I'm not the sharpest telecommunicater by a long shot but, here goes.
Long story short, my wife was in Russia for the last 3 weeks. I wanted her to be able to make phone calls on a cell while there. I talked with several
Guru types about the subject and they all recommended a GSM UN-locked phone. In essence, this phone can access any and all of the major carriers in
Europe and many other countries, if not all. Buy the phone here in the states and then when you arrive at your destination you buy a "Sim Card" and
then buy minutes to be applied to that Sim card. As you leave one country ie Russia and travel on to Switzerland you buy another Sim Card from a
dealer in that country. Each new carrier/country/card will have a new phone number and you then buy minutes to be applied to that new
carrier/country/card. Supposedly, the phone number will remain yours as long as you keep minutes/time on the phone with that carrier/country/card (for
up to six months after you buy the minutes, If you use up all the minutes and don't buy more then the number goes ..?? away?? back into the log of
numbers?? I don't know, but you lose the number) Her phone worked well in 4 different countries and was WAYY cheaper than the pay phones. England to
the U.S. on a pay phone was about $6 US a minute. On her cell it was .88 cents a minute.
To continue, I've been told by those same Guru's that Mexican Sim Cards are readily available in Mexico and her phone will work on any of the
companies that sell the Sim cards. The recommended servicxe for Mexico was TelCell. We havent tried it yet.
Bedman
[Edited on 6-28-2007 by Bedman]
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bajacrawler
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Location: San Felipe/Sun City CA
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Can you just go to the Telcel store and have them change your existing Telcel phone from the old service to new service (11 pesos for 20 minutes).
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joel
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I don't know if you can go to a store -- I did it by calling their customer service number from my phone. There's an English-language one. I don't
have the number handy but you can probably find it on their site.
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Bedman
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Location: Orange County, CA.
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Crawler,
I don't think you can convert just any phone to a different carrier. Example: I have a cell phone with Sprint cell service. It is "Locked" to that
server and cannot be used with any other server. Hence the "UN-Locked" phone, is necessary to be able to use a server/provider of your choice with the
Sim card
Bedman.
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Wingnut
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Location: Phoenix, AZ
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I have Cingular (AT&T) with the North American plan. It hooks up with TelCel throughout Mexico and with the plan I can dial anywhere without using
long distance. It works fine in all of the towns and cities in Mexico where Telcel service is available. My sister borrowed it just two weeks ago when
she went to Cabo and had no problems at all. I have had times when the TelCel network went down but that seemed to be few and far between. I recommend
it highly. In fact I hardly ever use all my minutes in a given month and they keep rolling them over...
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bajacrawler
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Registered: 6-12-2006
Location: San Felipe/Sun City CA
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I have a Mexican Telcel phone that you put minutes in via prepaid cards. Usually there is at least one person at the Telcel stores that speaks
english. I just thought it might be easier to talk to someone face to face about the 20 minutes for 11 pesos new service.
Jack
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