Cellular Phone Facts

**Apos** · 02-05-2005, 09:42 PM

Originally Posted by Don Tomas

Originally Posted by Apostropheman

pm "MAV" or "TheLostGringo" they own Caribbian Communication, a cellphone store near Domino and the Europa on Pedro Clisante in Sosua. If you bring a GSM phone they can unlock it and get it going for a nominal fee. I think I paid about $800 pesos when they helped me out.

If you are going to travel out of Sosua off the beaten path bring an old Verizon/Sprint phone down and get hooked up with Verizon.

Orange is GSM and coverage sucks.

True however most people I know use Orange but they mostly live in and around Sosua and Puerto Plata.

**jd_mine** · 02-05-2005, 09:47 PM

Good thing about Orange is I can just use my own phone and only have to change the SIM chip. Bad thing is them dominican Orange bastards de-activate the chip after it hasn't been used for 2 months. So every damn time I'm there I have to get a new SIM chip and thus have a new telephone number. I still have all the chicas numbers, but they do not have mine any longer......Over here Orange never de-activate the SIM chips.

**Don Tomas** · 02-05-2005, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by jd_mine

Good thing about Orange is I can just use my own phone and only have to change the SIM chip. Bad thing is them dominican Orange bastards de-activate the chip after it hasn't been used for 2 months. So every damn time I'm there I have to get a new SIM chip and thus have a new telephone number. I still have all the chicas numbers, but they do not have mine any longer......Over here Orange never de-activate the SIM chips.

Since you have Orange in Europe does your DR SIM chip roam? If you get a signal why not buy (however many needed) RD$60 phone cards and punch in the card every two months when back in Europe.

**jd_mine** · 02-06-2005, 06:57 AM

For some reason my NL chip (which is a subscription, not a pre-paid) does roam in DR, but the pre-paid DR chip does NOT roam in Holland.

**Tonto4** · 02-06-2005, 08:33 AM

Originally Posted by elj707

Hey Don I was in DR last month and my verizon phone worked fine, don't know what they are going to charge me as I have yet to get a bill.

Would you recommend bringing a NY Verizon phone to DR? Was it expensive to use?
Thanks, Doug

**Apos** · 02-06-2005, 08:53 AM

Originally Posted by Tonto4

Originally Posted by elj707

Hey Don I was in DR last month and my verizon phone worked fine, don't know what they are going to charge me as I have yet to get a bill.

Would you recommend bringing a NY Verizon phone to DR? Was it expensive to use?
Thanks, Doug

My memory may be faulty but I recall about $3 USD per minute from another post. It's less than a quarter a minute with a DR based phone.

**psriches** · 02-09-2005, 05:45 PM