Help with trip to Mexico (Cancun)

money69 · 06-06-2007, 16:31

No offense to anyone else that posted but forget the other suggestions. The best bet in Mexico is to get a Movistar prepaid sim, I have one I use all the time there. Once you get the sim dial *TARIFA from the phone and change your plan to the plan titled "por llamada". This will allow you to dial direct from Mexico to the US, CANADA, PR for only roughly $1 for 30mins worth of talking, by far better than any world sim. Local calls are only 60c for 30mins worth of talk time also. As far as incoming calls, since Mexico is now Calling Party Pays (CPP) then the incoming calls will be free on the sim side but you'll pay whatever the rate is to call Mexican cell phones on your office side. Good luck and have fun. BTW, Last time i bought a movistar sim I paid $15 for it with $5 of credit on it.

mmastera · 07-06-2007, 17:21

Thanks for all of the replies, including the 09 suggestions...

Thanks for the suggestion money69...I know enough Spanish to get into trouble so I just translated Movistar's website last night to understand it better. I agree that the tariff you mention looks like a good deal. At approx $1 for 30 mins it may not make sense to use my callback and instead just dial direct...

And I see that the data rates aren't pleasant at all...I will stick to wifi as much as possible and just use data for push email to my phone if at all...

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions

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money69 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Fan Posts: 154 Join Date: 06 Aug 2004 Country:	06-06-2007, 16:31 No offense to anyone else that posted but forget the other suggestions. The best bet in Mexico is to get a Movistar prepaid sim, I have one I use all the time there. Once you get the sim dial *TARIFA from the phone and change your plan to the plan titled "por llamada". This will allow you to dial direct from Mexico to the US, CANADA, PR for only roughly $1 for 30mins worth of talking, by far better than any world sim. Local calls are only 60c for 30mins worth of talk time also. As far as incoming calls, since Mexico is now Calling Party Pays (CPP) then the incoming calls will be free on the sim side but you'll pay whatever the rate is to call Mexican cell phones on your office side. Good luck and have fun. BTW, Last time i bought a movistar sim I paid $15 for it with $5 of credit on it.

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mmastera (Offline) Junior Member Newbie Posts: 4 Join Date: 03 May 2007 Country:	07-06-2007, 17:21 Thanks for all of the replies, including the 09 suggestions... Thanks for the suggestion money69...I know enough Spanish to get into trouble so I just translated Movistar's website last night to understand it better. I agree that the tariff you mention looks like a good deal. At approx $1 for 30 mins it may not make sense to use my callback and instead just dial direct... And I see that the data rates aren't pleasant at all...I will stick to wifi as much as possible and just use data for push email to my phone if at all... Thanks to everyone for their suggestions