Costa Rica

Stu · **Costa Rica -** 02-12-2007, 21:32

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?

DRNewcomb · 02-12-2007, 23:08

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.

Bossman · 02-12-2007, 23:27

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

Celtrek
Yackie
Maxroam
UM

andy · 04-12-2007, 13:13

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

snidely · 06-12-2007, 16:36

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).

kupe · 13-02-2008, 17:30

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

Kupe

snidely · 17-02-2008, 21:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by kupe

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

Kupe

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

kupe · 17-02-2008, 22:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by snidely

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

Mike-

I was charged the CBW Liechtenstein mobile rate of .56/minute plus the UM incoming call rate for Costa Rica of .30/minute. That's slightly less than if I had used the UM outgoing rate for Costa Rica of $1.15/minute, but obviously wouldn't want to do a lot of yacking at either rate!

Kupe

sentry08 · **yackie sim -** 15-04-2008, 17:48

Hi,

This form has been mostly helpful, I'm traveling to Costa Rica tomorrow and based on info found here I bought a yackie sim, Celtrek has cheaper call rates and no free incoming, but on initial purchase Yackie was less expensive, because Celtrek does charge for the sim..

On second thought though I should have gone with CelTrek as call rates are less expensive than Yackie plus callback to yackie's free incoming is hardly an option because rates to Iceland mobile are quite high so I'll just have to use the yackie sim as is. I wish local calls within Costa Rica was cheaper.

Anyway, too late now, I will let you guys now how it works out.

edit: just checked and rates in neighboring countries such as Panama, el Salvador, is a lot cheaper with yackie.

fedeprovenza · 13-02-2008, 18:50

call id showed on display?

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Stu (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Guru Posts: 1,091 Join Date: 11 Feb 2004 Location: Detroit (formerly Dubai) Country:	Costa Rica - 02-12-2007, 21:32 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?

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DRNewcomb (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,465 Join Date: 27 Feb 2004 Location: Mississippi, USA Country:	02-12-2007, 23:08 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.

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Bossman (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,257 Join Date: 22 Apr 2005 Location: Chicago Country:	02-12-2007, 23:27 The question still remains though, will it actually work there. The following sims, and possibly others claim to work there.... Celtrek Yackie Maxroam UM Phones: Xiaomi Mi Mix 2, Samsung Galaxy A50, ASUS zenfone 3, Sim cards: AT&T (Contract), 3 UK, Piranha Mobile

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andy (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Prophet Posts: 2,128 Join Date: 10 Dec 2004 Country:	04-12-2007, 13:13 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

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snidely (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 451 Join Date: 09 May 2005 Location: Berkeley, California and Miami Country:	06-12-2007, 16:36 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). Make use of T-M's UMA/wifi free calling from any place in the world with access to wifi. I use an LG G6, wife an S7) A/o Oct 20, 2013 no need for intl prepaid as T-Mobile U.S. includes voice roaming at 20¢/min (in and out)., unlimited text (in and out), and unlimited data in 140+ countries. My Plan -[6 lines] U.S. T-Mobile unlimited minutes (incoming and outgoing), unlimited text, fast data on each line. that $145/mo. total! . (In U.S. no surcharge for calling a cell.) If a line exceeds 2G of data in a month, pay $10 more for that line. [That only happens a couple times/year.

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kupe (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Fan Posts: 103 Join Date: 19 Jun 2006 Country:	13-02-2008, 17:30 I just got back from Costa Rica yesterday and my UM +423 Sim worked fine on the I.C.E. network. Kupe

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sentry08 (Offline) Junior Member Newbie Posts: 1 Join Date: 15 Apr 2008 Country:	yackie sim - 15-04-2008, 17:48 Hi, This form has been mostly helpful, I'm traveling to Costa Rica tomorrow and based on info found here I bought a yackie sim, Celtrek has cheaper call rates and no free incoming, but on initial purchase Yackie was less expensive, because Celtrek does charge for the sim.. On second thought though I should have gone with CelTrek as call rates are less expensive than Yackie plus callback to yackie's free incoming is hardly an option because rates to Iceland mobile are quite high so I'll just have to use the yackie sim as is. I wish local calls within Costa Rica was cheaper. Anyway, too late now, I will let you guys now how it works out. edit: just checked and rates in neighboring countries such as Panama, el Salvador, is a lot cheaper with yackie. Last edited by sentry08; 16-04-2008 at 08:01.. Reason: update

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fedeprovenza (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 282 Join Date: 28 Jul 2007 Location: Garda lake (south-west) Country:	13-02-2008, 18:50 call id showed on display? [COLOR="Magenta"]"Working" PrePaids: Wind, Vodafone, CoopVoce, , Travelsim (2), 02 Irish (2) My best sim?--> Wind +39-328 My phones: Samsung Galaxy Next S5570