Phoning the US from Cozumel?

[WaterWayne]

Although not exclusively related to wireless calling, here are codes and hints for dialing U.S. toll-free numbers from Mexico (such as your own provider's help desk). However, bear in mind that calling any of these U.S. toll-free numbers from Mexico costs the same as a standard international call.

To call a U.S. number that begins with 800:
001-880-(7-digit number)
To call a U.S. number that begins with 888:
001-881-(7-digit number)
To call a U.S. number that begins with 877:
001-882-(7-digit number)
To call a U.S. number that begins with 866:
001-883-(7-digit number)

Numbers beginning with 800 WITHIN Mexico are toll-free. That is, Mexico also uses the 800 code for free calls within the country.

hth!

 

[diveborg]

oops, duplicate post

 

[Moodiejeff]

You can force to the phone to search for other networks to join.

Yep, had to "force" the phone to find the network when we had AT&T. It was a function buried a few sub-menus down on that particular phone. Had to do it every time we made a call.

This was (3?) years ago though... maybe the coverage on the island wasn't as good back then. We were at The Presidente at the time, not terribly far from town but maybe far enough.

 

[UltimateAg]

If that is a recent change, then Cingular may work here now...but I had a customer a few months ago with a cingular who was told it would work here, and it didn't. He could never get a signal.

Howdy Christi! You're probably thinking of me.
I was there for my brother's wedding a few months ago and half the guests had cingular but not a single person with cingular could use their cellphone. There was even someone there who worked for cingular but no luck. Lack of signal wasn't a problem, because I pretty much had a full signal any time I was near the middle third of the island (around downtown). Every guest had setup up international roaming and dialing, my phone is a Razr so I know it was on the right network, also because where the carrier signal normally says cingular it said Telcel, I tried forcing it onto the right network just to make sure with the same outcome. I even managed to talk to a Telcel customer support person, which ended with I should be able to call but for whatever reason couldn't.

Now maybe they have the infrastructure in place, maybe they were having complications that specific weekend, or maybe we were all too stupid to figure it out, but for whatever reason I and about 10 other people couldn't use our cellphones with cingular service to make any calls. So take it for what it's worth, which isn't much.

My suggestion, would be the internet cafes other people have mentioned. Very reasonable prices.

 

[Hawkeye Mark]

I was there over Labor Day and I had no trouble with Cingular. Got a couple of calls but didnt return them.