Trill
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Cellphones???
With the high cost of land-lines in Mexico...will a cellphone based in San Diego work as far south as Rosarito???
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Natalie Ann
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My U.S.-based friend's ATT cell phone works in Cabo... it does not work if he's in a "hole" (lower than the surrounding topography).
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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dbrooks
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My AT&T...
phone worked all the way to El Rosario! This was a bare bones plan, too. I looked for exhorbatant charges on my bill - saw none. It's a miracle!
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Bob H
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We have Verizon and our worked from the sports book in Rosarito Beach.
Bob H
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thebajarunner
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cell phones
You all had better luck than I.
My ATT blew out as soon as we crossed 2 weeks ago, actually I was able to keep alive a conversation to the Playas toll booth, then nothing but
recorded Spanish announcements telling me to go away.
Got the same as far North as Potrero after we crossed at Tecate, the Mexican system was still blowing me out 5 miles North of the border.
Ah well, my kids tell me I am in the "Ronald Reagan era of Communications"
Guess this proves it.
Baja Arriba!!
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BajaVida
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I think you need to dial 001+area code+number to call the US
also read somewhere that 066 is the equivalent of 911 in northern Baja
No se apure y dure.
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dbrooks
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaVida
also read somewhere that 066 is the equivalent of 911 in northern Baja |
Yeah, I forgot that part...you have to dial 001, etc...
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jrbaja
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High cost ?
I am not aware of a high cost for land lines in Baja. The blue public phones are extremely expensive but the regular phones that don't advertise "long
distance" are fairly reasonable. A regular land line for your home is generally less expensive than in te U.S.
Some U.S. cell phones work down here but others don't. The best way for communications in Baja is a Telcel cell phone. They work almost everywhere
besides between El Rosario and Guerrero Negro.
This information is from my own experience testing the phones and living here for a number of years. Not from what others have told me or what I
read in a book.
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