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| I just don't get it! I was down in Argentina back in September of this year. I was there for a week. I found one of the local phone companies offering wireless pre-paid data services for 10 pesos a day (about US$2.50). For 10 pesos I got a gig worth of traffic per day.
While in Argentina I'd use my unlocked 3gs as a modem, made phone calls back to the states using Skype, and listen to streaming audio and watch TV using my Slingbox back at home. Yet I never reached 1 gig in a day.
Not only do I still have the sim card from Argentina, but the rep told me, your service will be active for 999 days. So next time you visit all you have to do is add money to your account and it will be back in effect.
To add insult to injury, down in Argentina I don't know what they're doing with their wireless service, but I was getting closed to 3 megabits and almost 2 for uploads.
We live in the country that invented the internet, and yet we can't get affordable wireless service... Why is that?
I spent less than 13 dollars and got 5 gigs worth of data. As I was leaving the country I got a text from the phone company telling me that, they had an offer, next time I put 20 pesos on my account I'd give me an extra 10, if I put 30, they'll credit me 50.
Anyway... Why doesn't the AT&Ts, Verizons, Sprints & T-Mobiles of the world do the same thing? I am guessing that what we call competition between wireless carriers is no more than a hoax, and there is no real competition.
»www.movistar.com.ar/3g/prepago_n···des.html | | |
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| How large is Argentina, and how many WISPs are there?
More telling, how many REAL cellular providers are there?
What I mean is cellular providers that are neither government-owned or regional offshoots of one big national provider. | |
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| Well Argentina is HUGE! The US is the 3rd biggest country in the world, Argentina is the 8th.
They have Claro which is the biggest Mobile provider in LatAm. Carlos Slim's shop.
The provided I was using is called MoviStar which is owned by Telefonica. So let's see... Spain, Czech republic, Slovakia, UK, germany, Ireland, italy, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru, Venezuela and Puerto Rico.
MoviStar (Telefonica) doesn't sound like a mom and pop shop to me. | |
| I was not implying that they were.
However, are tthey a *national* provider, or more on the order of a regional provider (like US Cellular or the old Cellular One or even Alltel)? | |
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