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micah202
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Suggestions for Cellphone, data?
I'll be in Baja 2-3 months,
(Re-Covid.... I'll be remote camping, covid tested, and full precautions in towns, so please don't harass me)
What do folks recommend for Cell,data plans,, in regards to price, and reception?
Thanks.
[Edited on 12-23-2020 by micah202]
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PaulW
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telcel amigo plan
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JZ
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AT&T.
Free roaming in North America. Including data. Best coverage in Baja.
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BajaBlanca
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boy, if you can deal with having a telcel Mexican phone number, their PAQUETE lets you call / get calls, unlimited, to Mexico, USA and Canada for 200
pesos a month. Includes internet too.
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PaulW
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Yes and if you have an unlocked att iphone come to Baja and buy a telcel sim card and have all the use including data for 150 pesos per 28 days. Thus
you do not have to buy an att mexico plan.
att in mexico uses telcel service.
Not sure but I think other gsm carriers work the same way as above.
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BajaBlanca
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Indeed, mine is prepaid and not a plan, but because I use the internet A LOT, I am pretty sure we put on 200 pesos.
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baja Steve
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AT&T I have sued several and they are the best. Also use WiFi
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baja Steve
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Also good in BC
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So some are sued easier than others?
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ATT Mexico
I use a pre-paid ATT phone, and when in the La Paz area, the service is provided by ATT Mx. The cost per minute, 25 cents, is less than when it is
roaming on TelCel for 35 cents.
The same call when traveling through Canada was 65 cents. I couldn't tell you what data costs, I don't use that mode.
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Cancamo
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TelCel Amigo Sin Limites/ 200 p/month, unlimited calls domestic, Us/Canada.
Either buy a sim card or a cheap phone. Carlos Slim, (TelCel), owns the towers here.
Not sure about data.
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mtgoat666
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Quote: Originally posted by micah202  | I'll be in Baja 2-3 months,
(Re-Covid.... I'll be remote camping, covid tested, and full precautions in towns, so please don't harass me)
What do folks recommend for Cell,data plans,, in regards to price, and reception?
Thanks.
[Edited on 12-23-2020 by micah202] |
My USA-based AT&T and Verizon services have roamed fine in baja. Verizon used to be worse coverage than AT&T, but now seems to be on par with
AT&T for service in Mexico.
AT&T and Verizon roam on the major mexican networks, so reception while roaming in Mexico is typically same reception as telcel, etc.
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micah202
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You get that in the US, no?
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I see you are in Canada. If I were you I would just add intl plan to my existing Canadian telephone plan. You don’t need a new contract and new
tele number to travel outside of your homeland....
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| Quote: Originally posted by PaulW | Yes and if you have an unlocked att iphone come to Baja and buy a telcel sim card and have all the use including data for 150 pesos per 28 days. Thus
you do not have to buy an att mexico plan.
att in mexico uses telcel service.
Not sure but I think other gsm carriers work the same way as above. |
You don't have to buy an AT&T Mexico plan. And no need to put a Telcel SIM in your AT&T phone. They have unlimited calling and data in North
America at no extra charge.
AT&T use to use Telcel for roaming, but they bought 2 Mexican operators about 5 years ago.
This way people can reach you on your US phone number.
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pacificobob
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i have a us number at&t cell here in south baja full time for 3 years....it sucks.
i belive they use tel cell towers, but somehow manages to suck.
if i was a more active cell user i would get the tell-cell amigo plan. hard to beat.
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Living in a sketchy cell coverage area and having both Verizon w/Mexico plan, (to maintain a US domestic number for incoming calls w/o intl. charges
for the caller), and TelCel Amigo Sin Limites, Often the Verizon has no signal, where the TelCel is fine. Even though they use the same towers....go
figure???
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| Quote: Originally posted by pacificobob | i have a us number at&t cell here in south baja full time for 3 years....it sucks.
i belive they use tel cell towers, but somehow manages to suck.
if i was a more active cell user i would get the tell-cell amigo plan. hard to beat. |
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We live one mile (direct line-of sight) from a 300 ft tall Telcel tower.
Our AT&T US phone/number constantly switches between Telcel and AT&T Mex as the service provider. When connected to Telcel, the service works
flawlessly. When connected to AT&T Mex calls are dropped constantly.
They are supposed to be one and the same but there is something different about them. Five bars on Telcel. Two to three bars on AT&T Mex. There
is only one tower in town so the signal is coming from the same tower. Go figure.
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Here's my friend's write up on the Internet in Baja from last January. Their map, I think is pretty accurate.
http://rvoutlawz.com/netflix-and-baja/
You can't go wrong with the cheap Telcel plans. Unlimited talk and text to anywhere in North America. Unlimited social media including whatsapp,
Facebook and Instagram and even when you hotspot it. Get a 300 pesos monthly Amigo Sin Limite plan now with 4gb + 4gb bonus data. If you need more
data you can add unlimited two hour sessions for a measly 15 pesos
https://www.telcel.com/personas/telefonia/amigo/tarifas-y-op...
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surabi
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| Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 |
I see you are in Canada. If I were you I would just add intl plan to my existing Canadian telephone plan. You don’t need a new contract and new
tele number to travel outside of your homeland....
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That would be very expensive and therefore stupid.
I have no experience with ATT, but the Telcel Sin Limites paquete (not plan- in Telcel speak, a plan is what you get if you sign a contract- paquete
is pay-as-you-go and you can buy the time at any OXO) is great. You can call to anyone in the US or Canada and yak for hours if you want.
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