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CaboJohn
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AT&T ¢1 per minute to and from Mexico
I just change my AT&T GoPhone plan to the NEW $55 per month plan, with smartphone data included. Have been using it for a week and yes it is
¢1 per minute both ways! I believe it gives me 2GB per month of data for my iPhone, more than I will ever use.
This new plan is available due to AT&T recent purchase of Grupo Iusacell SA.
Talk
Includes unlimited nationwide calls; and calls from U.S. to Mexico & Canada, calls within Mexico & Canada, and from Mexico & Canada at
$.01/minute to select countries listed at www.att.com/gonadp. Other internat’l calls are at standard pay per use rates.
Text
Includes unlimited text, picture, and video messages within the 50 states and Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam, and Mariana Islands.
International Text
Includes unlimited text msgs. from the US to Mexico, Canada and over 100 countries Isted at att.com/gophoneintltext. Also includes unlimited text,
picture and video msgs. while travelling in Mexico & Canada.
Data
Includes an allowance of data specified in the smartphone or basic phone plan grid, after which unlimited data usage will be at reduced speed of up to
128Kbps for the rest of the 30-day term. Actual speeds vary by device and location.
[Edited on 12-20-2014 by CaboJohn]
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yukonron
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Hey CaboJohn, this sounds great. Timely for me as I am heading to Walmart today to buy a go phone, as per AKgringo's info. I could not find this
plan on the ATT website. Where/how did you purchase it? Is it available for all go phones? Thanks.
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CaboJohn
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GoPhone Plans
Go to the AT&T wireless site, click to wireless plans and you will see Smartphone plans listed first, for the Mexico calls choose the $55 plan.
| Code: | Where/how did you purchase it? Is it available for all go phones? |
After buying a GoPhone years ago at BestBuy I signed up on the AT&T website which allows you to pay by credit card, set up recurring payments,
and you can change plans and packages at will. I believe it will work with all GoPhones as it worked with my non smartphone as well as my iPhone.
Actually it should work with any unlocked GSM cell phone.
Correction on data provided with plan;
Includes 1GB of high-speed data. Thereafter, unlimited data usage at reduced speeds of up to 128Kbps for the rest of the 30-day term.
If you need more high-speed data the cost is;
Selection Data Packages Expiration (days)
$10 - 500MB Data 30
$25 - 1GB Mexico and Canada Data 30
[Edited on 12-20-2014 by CaboJohn]
[Edited on 12-20-2014 by CaboJohn]
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So, there is no requirement to sign up for the 55/month for 1,2,3 years?
You stay with a go phone and go monthly at 55/month, renewing monthly?
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CaboJohn
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NO CONTRACT, pay a month in advance. Don't need to use the phone for a few months don't pay.
You just need to have a phone. They have cheap ones you can buy or bring your own(GSM tech). I just bought a refurbished iPhone, went to a local
AT&T store (must be company owned) and asked them for a nano SIM card for the iPhone as my older phone I had been using had the larger MiniSIM.
They gave me a free NanoSIM and registered its ID to my phone number on account. Old phone quit working(due to new SIM ID registration for iPhone)
and iPhone was live!
I have read the major carriers are trying to get out of the phone subsidy business(annual contracts) and are offering better rates to get customers to
switch to pay as you go plans.
I like the no contract offers!
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Hook
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If I LIVED on my phone the way some of my friends do (actually, they are my wife's friends!), I could see how this could be a great deal.
But I dont have anyone to text, dont have any Mexican websites I visit and don't talk longer than five minutes. I dont like to chat; I just want the
basics like when are we leaving the dock or what time should I be courtside or on the disc golf links?
I guess I could stream baseball on some app. But I have sat radio for that.
Nah, if I got on this plan, I'd probably just FEEL obligated to use the phone more.
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I hear you. I pay $.25 a minute on my go phone and still have $ 50 left over at the end of a year.
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what Hook said, i pay $1/minute on ATT roaming. guess what? i don't make any calls but like to have the phone for emergencies!
but a great deal, nonetheless.
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I would do this plan if I spent more time in the States. It would be nice to browse for things by phone. Open Table, an Amazon purchase here and there
that could be delivered to where I'm at, weather updates from the truck and camper.
I just cant justify it down here.
Plus, I am finding that some of the areas we like to travel in the US, which are moderately remote (SW Colo, SE Utah, norther NM), Verizon has much
better coverage. We are thinking about getting a Verizon go phone and going with one of their voice/data plans. I think they have a 30/month US plans
where you can buy more data for pretty cheap, if you need it. One down side is that we would lose our phone number when we terminate after heading
back south. No big deal, really.
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I use an unlocked iPhone with a Telcel simm card. Calls to the states are 13 cents per minute if you put on 200 pesos per month. They also give you
100 reglo minutes which can now be used to buy data at a rate of 2 per megabyte. so that turns into 50 megs of free data per month. We use an app
called Text Now which gives unlimited free texting over the internet.
I would be interested to know if the AT&T plan works in areas where Telcel is the only provider?
T-Mobile does a cross with Movie Star but it does not work well in many rural areas.
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woody with a view
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ATT uses the TELCEL network as soon as you cross the border.
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An agreement between Telcel and ATT is the reason the Go Phone works in Mexico. It seems that Carlos Slim's service is worth two and a half times as
much as ATT's. The phone also works in Canada at 39 cents/min.
When I activated my Go Phone, I was able to select which payment plan I wanted to use, so I kept it simple and cheap. I am pretty sure I can change
plans and keep the same number, but what I don't remember is if the $55/month plan is inactive for over 90 days, do you lose your number?
I know that if I want to upgrade to something similar to an Android, it is just a matter of swapping the SIM card.
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Well, that is supposed to be the way it works for me but, it isn't working. I bought a new go phone 11 days ago at Wal-Mart and activated an ATT pay
go account. The phone works in the US but hasn't worked in Tijuana. I bought the $45 plan and added the $10 Mexico to/from plan for .01 a minute.
I called 611 from TJ and got customer service twice and then the upper level tech support. After all that, nothing. I'm waiting for ATT to figure
out the answer...
I'm about to return the phone to Walmart (15 days to return) and try Sprint. I tried Verizon and same problem so I returned that phone 3 weeks ago
within the 15 day limit.
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BajaLearner, Are you calling a US number? If so, enter +, then 1, the area code and number. The only calls I made to Mexican numbers I just dialed
the numbers as given to me, but I think they were cell phones.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
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AT&T still roams only on Telcel, as the purchase of ISAcell by AT&T won't close until next year (this new plan is nothing to do with that
deal). (edit: to be more accurate, it maybe exists because of the pending deal, but doesn't use the carrier they're buying, yet).
They'll need to build out the IUSAcell coverage a LOT in Baja before it becomes as good as Telcel or even Movistar. So there could be a period next
year, after the deal closes, if they remove Telcel roaming, where the AT&T coverage in Mexico gets much worse.
The data included appears to only work in the US, not in Mexico or Canada, which although to be expected is a big limitation.
As others say, the plan is great if you make a lot of voice calls and texts, and don't mind being limited to a US number. But it's still a lot of
money.
I'm a very low user of voice and text, and wifi is good enough for mobile data, so I currently have a Telcel Amigo sim (effectively $4/month to run),
and an old T-Mobile "Gold Rewards" sim that I spend about $20 per year to keep, in a dual sim phone, plus some incoming numbers in a few countries
that I forward to them ($5/mo) - total around $11/month to keep in touch in Mexico, USA, Canada with a local number in each.
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CaboJohn
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The added $10 Mexico for .01 a minute is only good for 1000 minutes and only for calls to Mexico not from Mexico.
In TJ a lot of locations will actually have you on the AT&T network from the US. Be sure and look at your phone and see what network it is using,
it effects how you need to dial a number. With the $45 plan there should not be any problem using the phone from Mexico unless you don't have
additional credit in the account to pay for each minute(¢25 from MX to US) of talk. If you don't have the credit it will not let you place the call.
If you switch to the $55 plan you still have to have account credit for each minute(¢1/minute) of talk.
Quote: Originally posted by bajalearner  | Well, that is supposed to be the way it works for me but, it isn't working. I bought a new go phone 11 days ago at Wal-Mart and activated an ATT pay
go account. The phone works in the US but hasn't worked in Tijuana. I bought the $45 plan and added the $10 Mexico to/from plan for .01 a
minute. I called 611 from TJ and got customer service twice and then the upper level tech support. After all that, nothing. I'm waiting
for ATT to figure out the answer...
I'm about to return the phone to Walmart (15 days to return) and try Sprint. I tried Verizon and same problem so I returned that phone 3 weeks ago
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CaboJohn
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| Quote: Originally posted by Riom | | Quote: Originally posted by wiltonh |
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AT&T still roams only on Telcel, as purchase of ISAcell by AT&T won't close until next year (this new plan is nothing to do with that deal).
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This new $55 plan is less than 40 days old. I don't know how they have cut a deal for the ¢1 per minute to/from Mexico including cell phones but the
Manager at the AT&T store in Chula Vista told me it had something to do with a pending Cell company purchase AT&T made in Mexico.
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| Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo | | BajaLearner, Are you calling a US number? If so, enter +, then 1, the area code and number. The only calls I made to Mexican numbers I just dialed
the numbers as given to me, but I think they were cell phones. |
Yes I've tried that (+ 1 the number) and get nothing. But as I said, I can contact ATT by dialing 611.
I close to the border and my phone indicator switches between ATT and Telcel but I can't call on either.
Every ATT person so far has verified what was in print when I bought the phone; that the extra $10. is to call into, out of, MX and call MX land or
cell numbers. .01 a minute, 1000 minutes per month. It's just not working from my home. I haven't tried it in other parts of TJ, maybe I should
experiment with that. But I bought it to make and receive calls from my home.
And I do have an extra $10. in my account to pay the penny charges.
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Riom
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| Quote: Originally posted by CaboJohn |
This new $55 plan is less than 40 days old. I don't know how they have cut a deal for the ¢1 per minute to/from Mexico including cell phones but the
Manager at the AT&T store in Chula Vista told me it had something to do with a pending Cell company purchase AT&T made in Mexico.
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It's certainly an interesting plan (for heavy voice/text users), and I agree is probably a result of the plans to buy IUSAcell. Although the rates are
the same for Canada without them planning to buy a carrier there (and Canadian mobile costs are high).
Maybe they're taking a loss for a while on the roaming, to get a nice base of dual/triple country users for when they're able to offer a seamless plan
(with data) after the deal closes, or to get a feel for what the market needs.
There's no IUSAcell coverage in San Felipe (and lots of gaps in BCS such as Todos Santos), so the big question is: will AT&T still be able to roam on
Telcel after the deal closes? It seems unlikely in the long run, especially as AT&T have said they'll need to put a lot of investment into
expanding IUSAcell's coverage to compete.
[Edited on 2014-12-21 by Riom]
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I am missing something here...If its 55.00/ month how can it be .01/minute? Are you saying .01/minute on top of the 55 bucks? That doesn't seem like a
very good deal....
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