The Skinny on getting a Dominican SIM for my Iphone?

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Contango

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Its been covered before in different topics..

I can get a SIM at Claro for cien pesos.. But she told me ( the Claro clerk) its only good for talking, making phone calls.. If I want to use TEXT ( that's all I ever do here), I need to register and pay 650 pesos per month.. Is this correct, and then buy minutes... I just want to swap out my Canadian SIM while I am here and use a DOM Sim..
 
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BS. It works for phone and text. Of course you need to put minutes on it. But what she said is not correct.
 
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If that were true, then go to Orange. I make phone calls and text from my prepaid card. In fact, I've been texting overseas to South America. No problem.
 
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sosuamatt

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I just did want you want to do with my Canadian smart phone. Swapped out my sim card for a local one and bought minutes.
I can talk and text. I can also logon in a wifi hotspot no problem.
 
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OP, if you have a Claro prepay sim, just ask for 500mb of data plan (non contract) for rd450 a month. That way if your phone has , internet browser, whatsapp, FB, Skype, yahoo messenger,sms , etc, you will never use any minutes you have with Claro. The data plan last for 30 days, and you can repurchase whenever you wish.
 
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Now that I have my sim installed. Is there anyway of seeing on my iphone how many minutes I have left? Next month I'll change to the 450rd plan. But for now I got the sim for 100 pesos and bought minutes. Thanks
 
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Contango said:
Now that I have my sim installed. Is there anyway of seeing on my iphone how many minutes I have left? Next month I'll change to the 450rd plan. But for now I got the sim for 100 pesos and bought minutes. Thanks
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Claro - dial *122# to get your voice / minutes balance. If you get the data plan ( I do exactly as BermudaRum explained in post #7) for some strange reason Claro have no automated way to see your mb usage. On Iphone you can see your usage ( in Settings ) and 'reset' your usage meter every time you re-charge your data. but it's not likely you will use 500mb in a month anyway.
 
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Astucia said:
but it's not likely you will use 500mb in a month anyway.
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You would be surprised how fast you eat a GB of data if you surf regularly.
WIFI solves that concern, and only use data when away from WIFI.
 
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Astucia said:
but it's not likely you will use 500mb in a month anyway.
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You gotta turn off auto-download of emails and attachments to ensure that; the smartphones are notorious for downloading "stuff" in the background and chewing through data like no one's business. I've gone through 300mb in 6 days here in-country. Mainly because I was using the translator a lot, but if you forget to turn off app updates, that'll mess you up too.
 
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Don't go on contract unless you use make a lot of calls and use a lot of data. I don't know about Claro, but Orange has prepaid options like Astucia mentioned in a previous post. Orange pre-paid data options range from 100MB x 1 day= 40 pesos to 1GB x 30 days= 900 pesos. I swap out my Canadian SIM for Orange all the time, I put $500 pesos on prepaid, choose a data option such as 500MB x 7 days for $250 RD and keep the remaining balance for calls or texts. I keep track of my data usage ( there are free apps if you don't have an iphone.) All I ever paid was $100RD for the SIM. I will not sign a contract here, prepaid works well enough for me.
 
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