Getting A Sim Card In Colombia | Watch This Before Coming! Real Talk Ep. 25
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When you travel to a foreign country such as Colombia and plan to stay for a while you certainly want to make sure to stay connected. There are a lot of options and it can be overwhelming when you don't know where to start and what you need to make sure before even coming.
We usually suggest to get a prepaid card. No matter if you are just visiting Colombia for a while or staying long term. There are a lot of different options that are similar to a plan but you don't have to make a contract at all.
We usually try to stick to the easiest and best solutions and I can say out of experience, prepaid is the best solutions for us, at least at the moment. I use Claro because I had most experiences with Claro and I know how it works.
Good thing is you can charge your cell phone almost everywhere on the go.
Before coming to Colombia you should make sure your phone does NOT have a sim lock. We had a client with that exact problem, he just got a new phone in the states and didn't know about the sim lock. We already made the sim card at the time we realized that.
The solution was to get a cheap smartphone for around USD 80. We also had the option to unlock the sim card in a store, but we never did that before. And on top of that he's phone was new, we didn't know if he would lose his 2 years warranty if we would take the sim lock out. In that specific case, we ended up getting the other cell phone.
You usually don't need your passport to register the sim card, but because it's Colombia, we suggest to carry a copy of your passport or your drivers license with you. We registered several sim card with Claro so far, and made different experiences. Sometimes they needed the passport (copy is enough), in case our client forgot the passport the drivers license was enough too. We even had a store that was giving out sim card without registering at all. The sim card was already active, the client could even choose the phone number.
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Hi, my phone got blocked because apparently it was not registered. How can unblock the IMEI, if its blocked. Where should I call?
I'm glad I found your channel today. Lots of great information from you and Tasha. I'm not Colombian, I'm Cuban American but I've been to Colombia 5 times and love it very much, my best friend here in Miami is Colombian from barranquilla. I've been binging on expats to Colombia for about 2 hours of your videos. New subscriber. Thanks
Do you still travel to Columbia. I'm in Miami I want to go to Columbia
Sam thanks for the information. Much appreciated. Also it was great talking with you the other day. Unfortunately I won't be traveling to Medellin for a little while as my clients at work have demanded my attention. I look forward to the days of being a retired Expat in Colombia. Chow!
Keep it going. One day the day will come 😁
Awesome! This is going to be super useful.
Sam, Another great informational video. I use the Simple Mobile Plan from the United States, my data and texting worked fine in Colombia for the entire time I was there and I did not have to get a Colombian Sim-card. As you pointed out it is mandatory to have some sort of data plan when a person is here in Colombia as a tourist. Keep up the great work and am looking forward to my next vacation to Medellin in a few months. Jeff
Thanks Jeff. Already looking forward to meeting you in person. 😁
I believe it’s $10 a day in addition with your monthly plan. It’s very expensive if you use ATT.
Another good informational video.
Thank you good Info
Good info to know 👍🏽
Great video. Thanks a lot🙏
Glad it was helpful.
Other (bit technical) tip: Avantel offers 4G plans, but those do not support 2/3G, now the fun part: my European Huawei phone didn't support the 4G band they use, so I had no data at all. I looked up which 4G bands where supported by my phone, and only Claro did have this band. I switched to Claro, now all is fine, btw Claro does support 2/3G so with a weaker signal you still have data.
Wow yes a lot in detail. Did not know that Thanks 👍
Thanks!
Everyone in the WORLD uses Whatsapp, lol. No idea why it hasn't caught on in the US. Great app.
Because everyone in the US have unlimited text and call with one plan. And alot of ppl don't have anyone to call internationally unless they are going outside the usa or they have family.
@@rickyticky3350 Wnenever I am overseas I just you Facebook Messenger to call my family back in the U.S.A.
I have whattsapp buy only my oversees friends use it lol
@@rickyticky3350 That might be part of the reason but I think in general the world just has accustomed using it and in the US basically everyone has iPhones.
Your video is super helpful thank you but you haven't provided any of the links you said would under the video..
I am here in Taganga for the next 10 days. I saw your video of you and one of your partners that guide people who may want to move out here.
I was wondering if I could meet up with him regarding the next ten days. I am from North America and plan moving to Colombia next year. I could use your help. Thank you.
You can buy a Claro Sim card at the Bogota El Dorado Airport when you get there at 4:30 am ?
Why type of Sim care do they use in Colombia - micro SIM or nano SIM?
Can you register when you get the sim card at clario
i have iphone6 with Skype app and its a piece of shit. its way too slow and it bug all the time and the line breaking up. You can use the data of your sim card plan to make inbound and outbound call with an app that connect to your IP PBX phone system of your company.
I'll just get a new cheap phone when I go there if it gets stollen it won't be much of a loss I'll keep my good phone in a safe at my place
Was thinking about doing the same thing
Is there a Claro located in any of the Airports in Colombia?
In colombia do you guys do esim for the iphone 14 and can i do hotspot
Puedo usar un iPhone viejo que tengo en vez de mi cellular y ponerle un SIM card, funcionará voy para un mes Si me gustaría Usar Claro,. Espero tu contestación , muy buena información.
imei number is the unique phone (device) id number, it won't prevent a theft anyhow, if a phone is stolen they can block that imei in a country (and yet, some providers won't do that on stolen phones coming from another provider, 'cuz they just want new client's (thief's or his gf's) money, they don't care how he/she got a phone, they care about thier profit first, not some victim's one), but you can sell that phone on ebay etc to another country and it'll work most of the time abroad, especially if the carrier is not a multinational corp (claro equador may share imei database with claro co, and may not...), aslo state security would always want to know your imei, if you change sim card later they will still identify your device anytime on any country's network
Movistar probably should be mentioned for awareness. It has adoption similar to Claro. This is not a recommendation of Movistar, but the lack of mention seems like a big omission.
That's correct 👍
Hey brother I have a friend in colombia and I'm in us so I can't call there from here?
If you dont have recipt for your phone proving you bought it..your phone will be listed as unusable in Colombia. They will text you in Spanish...I had bought my samsung Galaxy 8 years ago and didnt have...so I cant use my phone anymore even with a new sim card.
The rergistering process of the IEME number isn't quite as simple as you state. Part of the registration process requires you to provide a cedula number or a passport number. Note: Passport the emphasis 'a number'. Most passports are a combination of numbers and letters, which gets rejected by the registration process. I spent a happy hour at the Claro office in Unicentro at Laureles traversing that issue. This is not apparent during the registration process which I tried to do myself as a reasonable fluent spanish speaker.
Thanks for the comment. The thing in Colombia is that it all comes down to who you are working with. I did the IMEI registration with a couple of clients already. No problem at all. Even with letters.
Werner Schmidt I have traveled to Colombia numerous times I WOULD NEVER carry my passport
@@billbigd3644 So tell me how you would register your cellphone at a Claro office when the registration process requires you to produce a cédula or a passport plus evidence that you are the legal owner of the phone. That is what my previous comment was referring to. My comment did not state anything about carrying a passport with you everywhere in Colombia. Please read carefully before posting. Good luck my friend.
Haha sounds like a typical web app bug, developers not thinking about the bigger picture. A strange choice for a country to put letters in its passport numbers though, 9 numerical digits is more than sufficient for the population of any country.
@@seanlive6975 You are right. But that cost me over an hour at the Claro sucursal to fix and it was the agent who discovered it. In the end she used the first 6 numbers following the letters and number combo of my passport. The issue emanated from the government based web site and flowed on to the Claro app; which prevented me registering it myself. And none checked whether this was OK as it wasn't within the gambit of managing the process
Hola, iré por una semana a Medellín. ¿Puedo conseguir nel chip en el aeropuerto? Y los precios siguen siendo los mismos? Gracias 😊
Ya seguro fuistes y regresastes sin respuesta 🤣 Yo voy tambien, dejame saber cual usastes. Gracias
Are those the same companies in equador?
Yes
FYI: countrycode.org/international-telephone-forwarding-google-voice-skype.html
i've not tried this - i've long used a Google Voice number for the sake of continuity.
Thanks. Yes I use the Skype one. Works great 👍
Could we ask them in the phone shop to register Imea for us?
Absolutely
nomas voy a estar una semana ¿que me conviene mas comprar datos por separado o pagar el de 30 dias?
Esto depende mucho de ti. Si necesitas muchos datos quizás seria mejor con un paquete. Hay varias opciones. De todos modos tienes que hablar con un asesor, él te va a explicar como funciona y que es lo mejor por tu caso.
where is the plan link and the imei link ? missing it
found this thebogotapost.com/register-mobile-phone/17409/
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how about Virgin Colombia Sam !
haha I did not mention all of the companies because we advise going with Claro ;)
Buenos días, discúlpame pero el personal de claro y tigo me sigue diciendo que las sim card hasta con planes post pago pueden venderlas solo con cédulas de extranjeria y no con pasaporte. Como hago en este caso ? Gracias
Es correcto, solamente los planes de prepago se puede conseguir sin cedula.
@@HowToExpat pero a mi hasta post pago me dicen que necesito cedula de extranjeria. Que hago?
@@silviomorabito2106 Pues no hay mucho que hacer sino seguir intentarlo en otras tiendas. Nosotros y muchos de nuestros clientes consiguieron la sim card SIN tener la cedula.
Does Claro support eSim?
nop
Can you carry your Android phone in public in Cartagena Colombia ?
Yes, but don't flash it around, meaning just take it out when needed and then put it back. Most Colombians have smartphones too.
Can I take my unlock cell phone and buy a Colombian Sim card or do I have to buy iPhone in Columbia.........
If your phone is unlocked you can just change the Sim card to a Colombian one.
Thank you very much you and the videos you make been a very big help , you cover everything on many videos in great detail and explaining for the viewers , I like to meet you and Colombia some day , Colombia feels more like a second home after watching your videos thanks in advance 👌👋😉
Can you call the states with WhatsApp
I have heard that if you only carry a copy of your passport the cops will give you a hard time, thanks Bert
We found police officers are usually very chilled. Only around parque Lleras I heard that they play some games with foreigners. Just tell them the US government mentioned on the website that because of danger of robberies they advice you just to carry a copy. A trick of a friend of mine. Make sure to keep a copy of the passport AND the entry stamp
Thanks for your reply. do you ever consider to talk about other places in Antioquia like Marinilla, La Ceja, Rionegro and Llano Grande where Uribe lives, but very expensive countryside, but there is many expats lives they call Rionegro the new city of eternal spring they feel Medellin is to hot and there is where Escobar was born not Envigado like many says and also explore Jardin and Jerico and the beautiful countryside there and also go and climb Cerro Tusa have a great time in Antioquia. Bert
@@TheViking34482 We will one day do a video about the outskirts of Medellin but it's not a high priority at the moment as 95% of people are interested in the Valle Aburra and not the outside. I for example love the area out there, and we had clients already set up in the community where Uribe lives and they liked it a lot.
Get a cheap crap phone better option maybe??
Dude....get to the point
By the time you finish my phone will be obsolete!!!!
Get to the point already! Way too much irrelevant detetails.
much money colombian Sim card ? I need whatsapp colombian country number