Can anybody teel me why I can't reach my chica on her celular en Bs As from abroad? In my case Europe but maybe the same problem exists from other parts of the world. We are sure that her celular works without problems but I can't reach her. She's living in Bs As and het celular number begins with 1551. Can anybody help me?
Thanks!
Cadavez
[QUOTE=Cadavez]Can anybody teel me why I can't reach my chica on her celular en Bs As from abroad? In my case Europe but maybe the same problme exists from other parts of the world. We are sure that her celular works without problems but I can't reach her. She's living in Bs As and het celular number begins with 1551. Can anybody help me?
Thanks!
Cadavez[/QUOTE]If her number (for example) is: 15 51XX XXXX.
Dial this sequence: +00 54 911 51XX XXXX.
I think that may help.
The proper way from the USA to call is as follows:
011-54-911-51-xx-xx-xx, I just tried it with the cell phone I had in Buenos Aires and it works.
[QUOTE=Surfer Pancho]The proper way from the USA to call is as follows:
011-54-911-51-xx-xx-xx, I just tried it with the cell phone I had in Buenos Aires and it works.[/QUOTE]Why the 011- at the begin?
You should start with the country code: +54
So, I guess, for my cellphone is +54-911-54-911-045
Locally my cell is 15-54-911-045
Maybe I've miss something but it should work this way
The "+" stands for the international access code, which is/can be different in different countries. In the U. S. It is 011, in most Eurepean countries it is 00, but there are more versions around. Reasons lie in telephone systems history.
Today, all (as far as I know) cellphone systems recognize the "+" key as an intl. Prefix. From a land line, you have do dial your local version, so it is:
011 54 911 xxxx yyyy from the U. S.
00 54 911 xxxx yyyy from Germany (and lots of other EU countries)
+54 911 xxxx yyyy from a (GSM) cellphone word wide.
Hope that helps.
El Alemán
[QUOTE=Cadavez]Hi Hunt and Surfer Pancho:
Many thanks for your help! You're fantastic! It works.
Cadavez[/QUOTE]De nada. Pleased to help.
Can anyone tell me plaease, what numbers do you dial to get Canadfa? In Thailand all you have to do is dial the country code, Canada is 1 and the 7 diget #, same in Argentina?
Thanks.
Cactus
With all due respect to my Canadian friends.
Sorry Cactus, I do not speak Canadian, as written in your post.
"plaease" "Canadfa" "diget"
Or maybe too many beers, eh?
[QUOTE=Cactus]Can anyone tell me plaease, what numbers do you dial to get Canadfa? In Thailand all you have to do is dial the country code, Canada is 1 and the 7 diget #, same in Argentina?
Thanks.
Cactus[/QUOTE]To make an international call, you have get to the international line first. That can vary depending where are you calling from. On all the cell phones I know of, international line is the sign "+", which is the number 0 and hold, then the country code which is "1" for US and Canada, and then the area code plus the local number. If you are calling from a hotel phone, the hotel operator can tell you how to get to the international line, then "1" and the 10 digit. I don't know about calling from a home land line in Argentina. In the US the international line is "011" and then country code, the city code, and local number.
Thanks Sportsman! My bad spelling is cause my wife has worn all of the letters off of the keyboard plus a little stupidity on my part.
Cactus
By default to get the international line in argentina is 00.
To call NY should be dialing 00-1-212-xxxxxxxx.
Most of times if you stay in an hotel, apartment, you'll be unable to get international line if you dial 00, it's more expensive and the phone company bills the calls after a month. So, the most common procedure it's buying a pre-paid calling card, like "tarjeta linea", if you use a pre-paid calling card you must dial the calling card access number then the code then you'll have line to call anywhere, so then you should dial 00-1-212-xxxxxxxx
Hello All,
This is a bit off-topic - can somebody recommend a good company to unlock a phone (cingular motorola V551)? Quick google search tells me it's a zoo out there. If I give up and just decide to purchase a phone in Bs. As. which would work in other Argentine cities as well, any suggestion what's a good place to go?
Thanks
I don't know if it's a good suggestion for you or anyone else, but I found it a good deal for me. Bought a Nokia in Buenos Aires from the CTI Movil store downtown central (edit Florida 902, corner of Florida and Paraguay) - cost $129 pesos for the phone plus $100 peso credit of pre-pago or pre-paid SIM card. So basically, for the cost of $29 pesos or less than $10 USD I got a phone, a pre-paid SIM card, and just skipped the hassle of making my own phone work down here.
I ended up paying $229 since I'll be here awhile so I could get pre-paid $200 pesos worth of credit. In almost a month, I've used up about $70 pesos and I've made a ton of calls.
I brought my own Blackberry which has world access but costs 2.99/ min on roaming so I also brought a spare Motorola that I figured I could get a pre-paid SIM card for. But after some trial and error and seeing it was locked when I went to a CTI Movil store in downtown Buenos Aires, I just figured for barely $10 USD it wasn't worth the trouble of trying to get it unlocked and just bought a Nokia phone. Now that I think on it, even if my US phone was unlocked for sure, for $10 one time cost, I think it's worth it to buy a local phone here unless you're literally in BA for just a few days, and even then, for $10 I'd still do it.
Not sure if it's a special or not but if it is they are always running it because that seemed to be about the standard all the time - a average phone for real cheap plus the SIM card pre-pago and $100 pesos worth of credit. The phone they gave as part of this package is an average Nokia, not super fancy but has all the normal cell functions plus text messaging, pre-set numbers for the local 911 and fire department with standard address book, logs, and a little function to text message CTI Movil which then spits back at you in 1-2 seconds a message telling you how much credit you have left on your pre-pago card.
Oh, and I had an ex-pat who lives here that is pretty good with the spanish thumb through my phone which first came all in spanish and he switched it to English so all the menus and stuff are easy to navigate, etc.
P.S. you can buy this packaged phone plus pre-pago card with what I understand is international access but I just skipped that and got the standard, which is all Argentina but no international outbound calls (although you can still get inbound calls from anywhere)
I use a CTI sim card for my T-Mobile Razer when I'm in BA. There are CTI pre-paid phone cards can be purchased everywhere such at any news-stand, face value 15p and up. However, the average usage is 1.50p / min, at this rate, it really drains you credits fast! The good news is, it won't cost you, nor your air time when some body else is calling you up!
Living in Buenos Aires, everything I$ a great bargain; the payphone is 0.25 centavos, and the use of a computer in internet cafes cost basically nothing. However, to me, at $0.50c per / min CIT mobile rate is kinda steep.
My very first text messaging experience began when I was visiting in Buenos Aires! Soon after I found out it only costs 0.15 centavos per / TM, I started to send messages to chicas from time to time. TM works like a charm!
See you all soon in BA!
Strad
My experience with pre-pago SIM card with the phone I also bought from CTI Movil is a lot different. Maybe stand alone SIM cards cost more in per-min usage charge then if you also buy the phone from a provider like I did?
I've been in and had the phone almost 1 month now in BA, and the $200 pesos pre-pago credit I had on it is now only down to about $125, which means I've only used $75 pesos worth and I've made out and recieved in a ton of calls.
My usage rate for outbound calls is nowhere near 1.5 pesos a min. I'm reading my CTI Movil pre-pago plan and receipt and it says right on here that I got something called a PPP50 Pre-Pago - Plano GSM and my rate for per min say $0.57. So my rate at least for this CTI Movil pre-pago phone plus SIM card is just over 1/2 peso per min or about 19 US cents per min which isn't great but also not bad either compared to US plans with overages in the 15 cents to 32 cent range.