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Old 3 Feb 2010
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Mobile phone in Central America

I'm taking a 6 month trip through north and Central America with my family.
Can anyone recommend how best to get good mobile coverage in Mexico, Gautemala, Belize, Nicaragua, CR, and Panama?

Is there a common carrier (just buy one phone & SIM)?
Is there mobile Internet with the carriers?

I'll have my Irish multiband GSM phone with me but the roaming charges on that may "hurt" a bit.

Thanks

Ian
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Telefonica / Tigo

you can just buy a sim card (prepaid one) if your phone is opened to all bands, in Central America Telefonica or Tigo would work for you. Not sure about Mexico
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Try some research on world travel sim cards. I used to have a "Sim 4 Travel" card with a UK phone number, where I could receive calls for free in countries such as Turkey and Australia. But I'm not sure how Sim 4 Travel's rates are for SOuth/Central America.
Just google "world travel sim" and compare their call rates for receiving/outgoing calls.
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Travel Simms/plans are a waste of money generally. You can buy a simm card for about the equivalent of $5 in any country in central or south America, then buy some prepaid credit for it for another $5 to get you going. You pay the local rate for calls rather than the expensive rates for a second-party reseller. There are a lot of different cell companies in each country, some better than others. In each country, I would just stop a kid on the street with a cell phone and ask which company was the best before buying a simm. They all know!
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