| Lonely Planet™ · Thorn Tree Forum · 2020 | |
GSM phones in Argentina.Country forums / South America | ||
The following is a question I received via private message: | ||
If you have a two-band unlocked GSM cellphone from the United States or Canada it will work in all American countries except Brazil and Venezuela. If you have a two-band unlocked GSM cellphone from Europe or Australia it will work only in Brazil and Venezuela. Quad-band unlocked GSM cellphones work all over the world. In Argentina the CTI SIM card costs 3.40 US$, the Personal SIM card costs 2.25 US$ and the Movistar SIM card costs 3.90 US$. Two-band phones with the pre-paid system cost 30.00 US$. Local calls cost 0.23 US$ per minute. International calls cost about 0.80 US$ per minute. | 1 | |
To the poster who has asked this question, please, send me your phone trade mark and model to be able to tell you if it works here. | 2 | |
I bougth mine in italy. when they sell it to me, I asked one that will eventually work in Argentina, and they selled it like "tri-band" or "tri-norma" (like they call it there). | 3 | |
Tri-band phones from Europe, Australia, Brazil and Venezuela lack the 850 Mhz band needed in the 23 Argentine provinces. | 4 | |