Verizon finally brings back discount Mexico roaming packages...!!

[cvchief]

My old iphone = free including the clone of my US phone. (and acutally it was one of the TOTAL unlocked 4S that Sprint let slip though)
Telcel sim = 300 pesos with minutes.

Anything important happens, my guys have both the US and MX in a Whatapp group. Easy peasy. Everything but the phone number is there.

 

[tridacna]

You gotta top it up. Data is expensive and a pain in the @ss.

Fi is the way it should be. No complications - no keeping multiple phones - the way it should be. There is no comparison.

 

[cvchief]

I dunno. My Sprint unlimited is less than $50. This Googly thing is 50 plus tax.

Phone calls are 20 cents a minute international right? So all my chatty cathy stuff is Coz will now cost me 20 cents a minute?

And it isn't public yet right?

 

[tridacna]

Googly thing is $20/month. Mexico in and out is free. (I have it). Invite to all with a Nexus 6.

My point is the the last bastion of phone rip off is about to fall. I buy international minutes wholesale for 0.001c/min! Text messages are equally cheap. The margins that the carriers make are insanely huge. They have been screwing people over for so long. What Google is doing is disruptive to these scumbags. There should be no reason to buy new SIM cards or jury rig cheapo solutions. It's a joke.

My point

 

[cvchief]

Oh. I just looked at the website where it says 20 plus 30 for 3 GB of data?

And I read the bit about:

"In 120+ countries, data usage costs the same $10 per GB as it does in the US (data speed is limited to 256kbps/3G). Check email, get directions, and keep in touch with friends and family when on your trip. Also, call around the world for 20¢ per minute and send unlimited international texts." So whatever that means.

Of course I have Telmex landline and a vonage phone, plus an extra telcel iphone for company to carry. Some maybe I just like more stuff?

Hope they don't screw it up too soon. I am a little to the good on the Sprint stock.

But hey, cut loose Google, might be helpful.

 

[DandyDon]

I trust that you have WIFI? It's all that you need. Also provides you with access to more than a million free hotspots. Does not require 4G - can use any cellular network connection.

My total cell phone bill is $30 per month including data. And they refund what I don't use. When I travel internationally (including Mexico), it's free. Voice and TXT. No silly SIM card or Skype needed).

How much is your monthly bill on VZW? Forget the ministrations that that you have to perform to be able to dial out without selling the family jewels in a foreign country.

Sprint covers my part of the county with 2G, and we really don't have wifi spots here in Mayberry - much less out on the dirt roads. Even just using the 2G coverage for voice & text over internet, I doubt that it'd work well here.

Why do you say "can use any cellular network connection"? It said Sprint & T-mobile, neither of which is well regarded around here. ATT is a close competitor for Verizon, but I don't think they're close enough to consider here.

3 of my kids recently renewed 2 year contracts to get iphones, so maybe Wifi will be up to speed here in 2017. I might even use it in Yellowstone when I go up for the total solar eclipse that August. I wish the kids would all renew together tho. One only has a year left and he always want to upgrade well before his contract is out. I can always bail on them and go on my own as mine has not been under contract in years, but I doubt I could fall off a farm machine from 4 feet landing on hard turnrow onto a smart phone and still use it ok. We'll see as things change.

It's so much cheaper than when I got my first cell phones. That 160 minutes/month plus 120 nights & weekends for $35, as long as I was in West Texas and not calling out of state. I know the companies have been making great profits, but they did have to build the towers, computers, and all that serve us now and will serve us with date calls in the future.

 

[tridacna]

$20 for voice; $10 for data in blocks. If you don't use it, you get a refund. You guys can diss it any way you want but the billing model just like that of cable TV is about to be disrupted. I remember when AT&T had the "billing model" down pat too. Let's see what happens over the next few years. BTW you guys get it. It's the millions of travellers who blithely use their phones when abroad that bring in the big $$$.

 

[DandyDon]

So I get to Mexico and my phone will not work. I tried logging into verizonwireless.com but that doesn't work. I called Verizon on Skype, but the computer just tells me to log in. I called the number Verizon sent me by text on arrival in Mexico for roaming help, but that fails too.

I went to Verizonwireless.com for a live chat. He said that they have had a large problem with customers trying to log in from outside the US and he filed a trouble ticket for me. He claimed that I had never added at Global Plan so that my phone would not work, but I am sure I added the Mexico plan - saw it on my account when I could log in. He told me to turn my phone off, on, and wait 30 minutes.

He also said their system will not take Skype calls. I can call my cell phone from skype and hear mself fine on the test call, and can text ok.

What a mess.

 

[Sloeber]

You can borrow my spare Mexico phone for the week

 

[DandyDon]

You can borrow my spare Mexico phone for the week

How kind, thanks! I don't actually need my cell to work, but it was supposed to - so I want it to! I wonder if my text to you failed because I treated it like a US number? Was that a Mexican number?

I have to go back to Cancun Friday afternoon for a fitting. I'll FB you when I get back and see what your plans are for the weekend.

I took my out-of-viz pony and some other gear to Tres Pelicans today, hoping they could help me with the issue, then get it filled for tomorrow. They were very nice. Gave me a ride to Scuba Repair back off of 90th Ave, took me in and asked the expert repair man to look, and he did - saying all that anyone cared about on the island was Hydro, which is good to 2017. They don't check viz at the fill station.