Of course, you can always do it the old-fashioned way: pre-pay a travel pack from your own service provider (either before or after leaving home), pay a little bit more, but have your smartphone working the whole time without having to give out a new number, be able to get right down to enjoying Wikimania without trying to find the shops and investing precious time on a transaction, worrying about whether you'll have problems, etc.
I'm a simple person. My plan is already on my phone. Risker/Anne On 14 July 2015 at 20:27, Katie Chan <k...@ktchan.info> wrote: > Or walk around hoping for and failing to find a shop with someone who > speak English, and regretting not knowing Spanish. > > I ended up managing to buy a sim a bit further down the road in the same > direction for $130 which comes with a bit of credit. > > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Stuart Prior <stuart.pr...@wikimedia.org.uk> > Date:14/07/2015 12:09 (GMT-06:00) > To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" < > wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: > Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] How to get a pre-paid SIM card for Wikimania in > 15 easy steps > > +1 > > Alternatively: > > Go to an internet cafe in Insurgentes. > Buy simcard there. > Have to go to another place to get it cut down to nano size for 25 pesos. > Momentarily lose your original simcard. > Give up on the actual credit thing and spend a load on roaming with your > domestic plan. > Go to another place a couple of days later but then realise you don't > actually have your new Mexican number so you can't get a data plan. > Go through a complicated transaction to find out and be immensely grateful > for your Hispanophone friend. > Eventually get it all sorted out. > > Or you can try Siebrand's way. > > S > > On 14 July 2015 at 17:00, Siebrand Mazeland <siebr...@kitano.nl> wrote: > >> >> 1. Bring ID, and 210 peso cash or a credit card >> 2. Go to Telcel store "Centro de Atencion a clientes Telcel" on Eje >> Central Lázaro Cárdenas. From the Hilton Reforma, right across the busy >> street, just before the "Empire State building". >> 3. At reception, say that you want to buy a chip Telcel Amigo >> 4. You will get a ticket with a desk number to report to. Probably >> upstairs. >> 5. Go to that counter >> 6. Ask for Telcel Amigo 7 dias 200 mega >> 7. Costs 150 for sim, 59 for the data >> 8. Computer stuff is done, forms are filled out >> 9. You are taken to the payment area. Pay there. 150 for the sim >> 10. Back to the clerk's desk >> 11. You'll get the SIM card >> 12. Put it in the phone and wait until the network is discovered. >> Telcel 3G for me >> 13. Hand the phone to the clerk >> 14. They will call a number. Presumable to activate >> 15. The you have to pay a second sum for the data. 59 pesos. You'll >> get an activation code. The clerk entered it for me and showed me the text >> message that confirmed the 200MB of data. >> 16. All done. Phew. Enjoy your data. >> >> This took me about 45 minutes, including the walk to and from the Hilton. >> Feel free to publish this somewhere on Wikimania wiki, or tell your >> friends... >> >> Cheers! >> >> -- >> Siebrand Mazeland >> Kitano ICT >> >> M: +31 6 50 69 1239 >> Skype: siebrand >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> > > > -- > *Stuart Prior* > *Project Coordinator* > *Wikimedia UK* > +44 20 7065 0990 > > Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and > Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered > Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. > United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia > movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who > operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). > > *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control > over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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