bluesnart
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Best Cell Phone Service Baja and Mainland
Hello
I am planning a trip to Guadalajara and plan on future trips to Baja. Can anyone suggest the best cell phone service available here in the U.S. to use
in Mexico. I have a Verizon prepaid phone plan but they do not offer the ability to call from Mexico.....rates to call and text to U.S.
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Ateo
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My iPhone with AT&T worked fine in Guadalajara last year. Didn't make too many calls though due to the cost.
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Pompano
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Another vote for AT&T Go Phone with 'Mexico & Canada calling plan' or customize your own. Three years with no complaints.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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bluesnart
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Thanks for the info....
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Udo
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I also use ATT for my MEXICO plan.
It roams with TELCEL.
MOVISTAR roaming does work at all in Baja.
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nbacc
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ATT with Mexico plan. My husband;s Verizon had no coverage at all although we did not go off Baja. They told him he would get coverage in Mexico but
not where..............not enough at all. ATT............only way to go. Nancy
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BooJumMan
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I'm a Verizon customer, but have an ATT Go-Phone for Baja and Mexico. Does not work in Costa Rica though.
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fish101
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Verizon will tell you that they have coverage in Baja, but don't believe them, I have had AT&T North American Plan for nearly 10 years now and no
complaints.. Like Udo said, AT&T roams with Telcel, so don't get on the "Moviestar" roaming..very costly...
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Whale-ista
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Telcel "stick" for Internet, Skype calls?
Met a woman in el Rosario last week using a telcel USB stick to link to Internet. She and family were traveling from Washington and working during
trip to cabo. Had kayak on top of big truck and planned camping and day paddles.
She Claimed telcel worked ok up to el Rosario, then fell off in central Baja. I guess you cld use it to Skype ?
Not sure about range south.
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Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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DianaT
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Whale-ista
Met a woman in el Rosario last week using a telcel USB stick to link to Internet. She and family were traveling from Washington and working during
trip to cabo. Had kayak on top of big truck and planned camping and day paddles.
She Claimed telcel worked ok up to el Rosario, then fell off in central Baja. I guess you cld use it to Skype ?
Not sure about range south. |
We use Banda Ancha (the "Stick") for our internet in Bahia Asuncion and it is slow. I really don't think it would support Skype. But I know others
in Asuncion who have better luck with Banda Ancha. You buy time for the Banda Ancha and have to make sure it is credited to Banda Ancha or it uses
minutes like a cell phone and gobbles up the time quickly. I learned this the hard way.
We use our Telcel cell phone even to call the US. If the calls is rather quick, it just does not seem to cost that much. With the Amigo plan, we
just purchase time when we are in Baja that is good for 60 days. One good thing about Telcel is that unused minutes roll over when you purchase more
time! However, in central Baja there are many places where there is no cell coverage.
Bluesnart, I hope you enjoy the mainland. Guadalajara is so large and what used to be outside villages are now all connected to the big city. But it
is still a BEAUTIFUL place to be.
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bluesnart
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Again thank you all for taking the time to offer your suggestions.....I'm looking into the ATT Go Phone.....and will take along my Tel Cell phone I
purchased in Guadalajara on my last trip
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