Can I get a prepaid phone in Santiago?

Get one at any Orange boutique

No problem at all

HB

There's an Orange shop on Calle de Sol across from Hotel Aloha Sol, you can't miss it. If you want buy an unlocked GSM based tri or quad band phone in the US and bring it over, they'll provide a SIM card and pre-paid phone cards to load minutes. The shop is near the Colonial.

Hillbilly said:

Get one at any Orange boutique...

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yes, orange is a good choice, they have good dialing tone and they have cheaper cell phones... Welcome to DR and have nice holidays!!

DD.

Hey, my piece of advice:

1) If your phone uses a SIM card, get it unlocked, or better yet, if it's already unlocked good for you. That way, you can get a SIM card at any Oramge dealer for 350 pesos with 100 pesos of airtime. If you cannot use the phoen from home, you'd need to buy one. The cheapiest junkie phone would cost you about 1000 pesos.
I see an offer of Benq Siemens A70 at 590 pesos with the orange card program (prepaid) don't know if that includes the 350 card activation or it's on top of the phone price.
Orange ™

2) You can buy a refurbished Verizon (CLARO) CDMA phone on the streat or any Verizon/Claro dealer. You would pay anywhere between 500-3000 pesos depending on the model, functionality, color screen, camera, video recorder, etc. Comes with airtime of anywhere 200 to 300 pesos. I have even seen offers where they sell you a phone at 300 pesos (junk, big phone from 90's) at 300 pesos with 300 pesos of airtime.

I was able to get a Verizon, no-frills phone, for 800 pesos with 500 minutes loaded. Just have to know where to go. This particular place was a cheap clothing store that had a limited supply of phones, but got the trick done. This was in Santo Domingo though. You can also take an old phone, one that has a chip in the back, and get a DR chip installed. A friend of mine went that route. Good if your a frequent visitor to the DR. Orange will do that for you.