On Jul 14, 2015 12:18 PM, "Sam Klein" sjklein@hcs.harvard.edu wrote:
And if you happen to have T-Mobile, starting tomorrow, there's this
option:
Movistar has free roaming "sin fronteras" within all central american countries, so can use sim card from different country.
Think they have something for us-Mexico also.
Katie
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Stuart Prior <
stuart.prior@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
+1
Alternatively:
Go to an internet cafe in Insurgentes. Buy simcard there. Have to go to another place to get it cut down to nano size for 25 pesos. Momentarily lose your original simcard. Give up on the actual credit thing and spend a load on roaming with your
domestic plan.
Go to another place a couple of days later but then realise you don't
actually have your new Mexican number so you can't get a data plan.
Go through a complicated transaction to find out and be immensely
grateful for your Hispanophone friend.
Eventually get it all sorted out.
Or you can try Siebrand's way.
S
On 14 July 2015 at 17:00, Siebrand Mazeland siebrand@kitano.nl wrote:
Bring ID, and 210 peso cash or a credit card Go to Telcel store "Centro de Atencion a clientes Telcel" on Eje
Central Lázaro Cárdenas. From the Hilton Reforma, right across the busy street, just before the "Empire State building".
At reception, say that you want to buy a chip Telcel Amigo You will get a ticket with a desk number to report to. Probably
upstairs.
Go to that counter Ask for Telcel Amigo 7 dias 200 mega Costs 150 for sim, 59 for the data Computer stuff is done, forms are filled out You are taken to the payment area. Pay there. 150 for the sim Back to the clerk's desk You'll get the SIM card Put it in the phone and wait until the network is discovered. Telcel 3G
for me
Hand the phone to the clerk They will call a number. Presumable to activate The you have to pay a second sum for the data. 59 pesos. You'll get an
activation code. The clerk entered it for me and showed me the text message that confirmed the 200MB of data.
All done. Phew. Enjoy your data. This took me about 45 minutes, including the walk to and from the
Hilton. Feel free to publish this somewhere on Wikimania wiki, or tell your friends...
Cheers!
-- Siebrand Mazeland Kitano ICT
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