What is the best cell phone service in Mexico?
While traveling in Mexico
it is easy to get frustrated when your US cell phone doesn’t work or only
works sometimes or you use up your vacation fund paying for roaming
charges. These problems become magnified
when faced with an emergency and you are left not being able to place a call
but possibly not even knowing who to call.
Our cell phones are our life lines, security blankets, and even though
we may not want to admit it, the one thing we just can’t do without!
Answer to above said problems? Easy, get a pre-pay Mexican cell phone. You can walk into any Telcel store, they are
everywhere in every town, and purchase a basic talk, limited texting, cell
phone for about $35usd. It is easy to
sign up and then you just purchase the minutes you need with an “Amigo”
card. The minutes are good for 90 days
but don’t worry, if you don’t use them all
you don’t loose them. If you go
back to the states after your visit and sadly don’t return for 4 months or
more, you can purchase any amount of minutes, even just $2, and the minutes
that you had before are re-activated!
The cell phones of course have fantastic service, especially for the
duration of the drive that some of you may feel the most daunted by…the highway
between Sonoita and Rocky Point. There
may be a few spots where service is sketchy but it is only momentary…no service
is perfect.
Probably the best feature of the cell phone is that it comes
with emergency numbers already plugged in!
Don’t know how the heck to dial the Red Cross or the Green Angels? Don’t worry, it is all in there. It is possible to dial back to the states
with a pre-paid Mexican cell but talk quickly or have plenty of extra minutest
on hand, they go quick. To dial the
states from any phone in Mexico
dial 001-area code-seven digit number.
Here is just a few of the services that are in the cell
phone:
Red Cross
(cruz roja)
Emergency
Services (emergencia servicios)
Bomberos (fire fighters)
Judicial police (judicial policia)
Green Angels
(cruz verde or Ángeles de verde)
Just one more way of taking the worry out of traveling! Also, another great idea is to plug in the
numbers for your Mexican insurance provider, just in case of an accident.