AT&T GoPhone roaming in Mexico

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Originally Posted by RTuesday

Mainly I now use Localphone US with a US number, with voip on the phone via wi-fi when I'm at home, failover to divert to Telcel mobile when I'm out of range, 8.8c/min for the divert.

Most outbound non-local calls are when I'm at home so they're the same VOIP account (plus some alternatives), can also use Google Voice callback. I have some other incoming numbers in various countries that forward either to the Localphone US number or the sip address, so they work out the same or 1-2c/min more.

Thanks Rob. Looks like you have a nice setup!

I had forgotten about localphone for giving me a free DID. I presume there are no problems of diverting incoming calls from your mobile onto a mapped Localphone number are there? e.g. If Localphone give me a Madrid +3491 number mapped to my Telcel SIM, I presume there will be no problems if I setup my Spanish phone to divert all calls to the +3491?

On my last trip to Mexico, for incoming calls to my main UK phone I had no problems of doing a divert via a UK DID and a Betamax provider (I used 12voip.com at 7c/min to Mexico mobile). That all worked grand! However, I had troubles on a friends last trip as I needed to divert her Spanish contract phone to my Mexico number. I used a free Spanish DID provider called Netelip who wouldn't allow a divert to SIP and I was stuck with their rates of 18c/min with 60/60 billing!! I eventually worked around it to some extent by diverting from them via my UK DID.. but the delay was awful!