Costa Rica
 

A friend just asked for a recommendation on Costa Rica. This is a country which I don't know that much about. It appears that neither the Icelandic or Jersey solutions work there. Does anyone have any idea what works best?

No personal experience. I rechecked CR a couple of months ago and it still seems that I.C.E. has the cellular monopoly and that they didn't have local prepaids. Celtrek also claims to work in CR and has pretty reasonable rates.

The question still remains though, will it actually work there. The following sims, and possibly others claim to work there....

Celtrek
Yackie
Maxroam
UM

I'd be tempted by a local SIM and callback for a few cents

But the info looks a bit sparse and I can't read enough Spanish

http://www.grupoice.com/esp/serv/per..._cel/index.htm

There is no prepaid by the only carrier there - govt. run I.C.E. You have to be an "official" resident to even get a line - and they are always in short supply. That will change in a couple years when the U.S./C.R. free trade agreement kicks in and new carriers can set up.
CelTrek has 19¢ incoming, 29¢ outgoing to U.S. Have used CelTrek there and works well. MaxRoam also covers C.R. UM lists C.R. but as I recall, rates are much higher. (My old UM card expired long ago. At the time they didn't cover C.R.)

...mike

P.S. C.R. is an 1800 only system. No 900 (or 1900).

I just got back from Costa Rica yesterday and my UM +423 Sim worked fine on the I.C.E. network.

Kupe

call id showed on display?

Hmmmm- let me think. I only used it with CBW, and I seem to recall it displayed my +423 number when I got the UM callback. So yes, I believe it did show Caller ID (though not 100% sure).

Kupe

The +423 does not generally have issues with caller id. The issues are mostly with Um+ (+447937)

What were you charged? Just curious. We are there often and do have an ICE phone. Actually, we now often use T-M's wifi/UMA service to make free calls to/from U.S.

...mike