basautter
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Best wireless carrier for Baja?
Can anyone tell me what carriers work best/worst in Baja? I am switching fro T-Mobile to Verizon. T-Mobile seemed to work well.
Thanks!
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Shimmer
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AT&T seems to be the best around Todos Santos. Verizon works in some places of Cabo.
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Howard
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A T & T is far superior to any other U.S.A. based carrier.
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing
George Bernard Shaw
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Pacifico
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AT&T
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Pacifico
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AT&T
"Plan your life as if you are going to live forever. Live your life as if you are going to die tomorrow." - Carlos Fiesta
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willardguy
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CDMA phones (verizon) are popular and work well norte but worldwide (including baja) GSM phones (att) are the most widely used. go with ATT !
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Ateo
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AT&T.
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grace59
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It is definitely ATT! Our neighbors in San Felipe switched from the carrier that they had to Verizon because Verizon told them that their phones work
in Mexico.....seems though that they don't work in San Felipe and some other parts of Baja. The neighbors had a very difficult time cancelling their
plan so that they could switch to ATT. SO if Verizon tells you that they work in Mexico remind them that Baja is also part of Mexico and that it
doesn't work well there! ATT also has a Viva Mexico plan which helps if you call to or from Mexico a lot like we do.
Whenever I hear that rainy, chill wind blow. I think it may be time to head for Mexico. Tengo que obedecer mi corazon!
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woody with a view
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ATT
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basautter
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Thanks for the great advice! I am switching to ATT!!
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pauldavidmena
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In the U.S., my wife has AT&T and I have T-Mobile. When we were last in Baja, my wife had coverage without having to pay roaming charges, while I
paid over $30 in data roaming charges for the few minutes I had the phone on at the Los Cabos airport before changing to a Telcel SIM card. Based
upon this experience, I would agree that the best U.S. carrier for use in Baja is definitely AT&T.
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woody with a view
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that may be, but ATT will have coverage (priceless!) over every other carrier in most places. so what if they want $1/minute. if you need to be
connected, you must pay the capitalists....
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dasubergeek
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Just for completeness' sake (oh yeah: AT&T!), note that Verizon will work in the border area of Tijuana, Tecate and Mexicali, and as far south as
Ensenada, but that's about it—not even the Valle de Guadalupe.
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BajaParrothead
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I called Verizon and inquired what I needed to do to get my phone to work throughout Baja. They told me that as long as it is 4g, then there was no
need to "unlock" it, so the rep talked me through the conversion to have access throughout Baja. So after completely changing my existing plan,
getting rid of my unlimited data pack and paying an additional $15 per phone for the time we were in Baja, it worked down to Ensenada, La Paz and San
Jose, but nowhere else. Complete waste.  Next trip I'll just by a cheap
telcel. At least it will work!! 
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tjsue
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My T-Mobile Smartphone doesn't work where I live in Tijuana. I bought a cheapo ($16) AT&T Go Phone, and it works on both sides of the border.
Next month, I'll be getting a Magic Jack Plus for my computer.
With the pre-paid, I use it to call my job, but also have the same phone numbers programmed into it as my SmartPhone. If they call when I'm in
Mexico, the call is returned via email. If they call me when I'm in the US, I return the call with my SmartPhone.
This system actually works pretty well.
[Edited on 10-1-2013 by tjsue]
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captain4tuna
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ATT
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