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snidely · **Guatemala -** 27-05-2007, 21:39

Went there for 6 days on a spur of the moment vacation. Roaming with Cingular or T-Mobile is $2-$3/min. Most intl. cards don't roam there. I had a CelTrek card - but their rates are also relatively high. $1.49.

Fortunately, there are 3 highly competitive networks there. You can buy prepaid SIMS for about $12 including 20 min. of airtime to cal U.S.
Calls to the U.S. are about 12 cents/min.! Incoming, of course is free. On one carrier, they run specials (may all carriers from time to time) where you get double airtime for your purchase. I spend $13 and got $26 worth of recharge credits That would have been over 200 min. of calling.

Problem - I couldn't get Voicestick to forward calls to my number. Couldn't get my VOIP carrier, Lingo, to forward either. With Lingo, the cell would ring, but the call wouldn't connect. With Voicestick, nothing happened. Dead air.
I had to spend $1.40/min. to take incoming calls on my T-M and then call people back. (I am on an old T-M roaming plan that is 25-65% cheaper than their current rates.)

I was going to try a test and get a SIM from a diff local carrier to see if that made a diff., but didn't get around to it.

Airport is all torn up and you don't pass any shops at all in exiting the airport. This is one case where I probably should have spent the $ to get a card from Telestial, especially since we arrived at night.

If anyone is going to Guatemala in the next couple weeks let me know. (The card is only good for another 3 weeks, i think, before you have to recharge it.)

...mike

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snidely (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 451 Join Date: 09 May 2005 Location: Berkeley, California and Miami Country:	Guatemala - 27-05-2007, 21:39 Went there for 6 days on a spur of the moment vacation. Roaming with Cingular or T-Mobile is $2-$3/min. Most intl. cards don't roam there. I had a CelTrek card - but their rates are also relatively high. $1.49. Fortunately, there are 3 highly competitive networks there. You can buy prepaid SIMS for about $12 including 20 min. of airtime to cal U.S. Calls to the U.S. are about 12 cents/min.! Incoming, of course is free. On one carrier, they run specials (may all carriers from time to time) where you get double airtime for your purchase. I spend $13 and got $26 worth of recharge credits That would have been over 200 min. of calling. Problem - I couldn't get Voicestick to forward calls to my number. Couldn't get my VOIP carrier, Lingo, to forward either. With Lingo, the cell would ring, but the call wouldn't connect. With Voicestick, nothing happened. Dead air. I had to spend $1.40/min. to take incoming calls on my T-M and then call people back. (I am on an old T-M roaming plan that is 25-65% cheaper than their current rates.) I was going to try a test and get a SIM from a diff local carrier to see if that made a diff., but didn't get around to it. Airport is all torn up and you don't pass any shops at all in exiting the airport. This is one case where I probably should have spent the $ to get a card from Telestial, especially since we arrived at night. If anyone is going to Guatemala in the next couple weeks let me know. (The card is only good for another 3 weeks, i think, before you have to recharge it.) ...mike Make use of T-M's UMA/wifi free calling from any place in the world with access to wifi. I use an LG G6, wife an S7) A/o Oct 20, 2013 no need for intl prepaid as T-Mobile U.S. includes voice roaming at 20¢/min (in and out)., unlimited text (in and out), and unlimited data in 140+ countries. My Plan -[6 lines] U.S. T-Mobile unlimited minutes (incoming and outgoing), unlimited text, fast data on each line. that $145/mo. total! . (In U.S. no surcharge for calling a cell.) If a line exceeds 2G of data in a month, pay $10 more for that line. [That only happens a couple times/year.