Bookie wrote:
Yes, that is the plan. The $60 purchase price includes 3 months of service. After that, you can pay yearly ($180 or $15/month). You get to select your US area code.
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I only use it in CR for texting so I add International Roaming Minutes which never expire. The feature is called UpRoam and you can buy blocks of $5, $10, or $20. I have a Kolbi prepaid SIM for local use.
Day to day, I have my Kolbi CR SIM in the phone. If I need to send or receive international texts or check my US voicemails, I swap to my MintMobile SIM and it connects to Claro and uses the the roaming minutes. Then I put the Kolbi SIM back in. If I travel to the US, I put the MintMobile SIM back in and I have a working US phone during my visit. I have yet to use up my first $20 block of roaming and I have had it for 2 years. I use an old unlocked iPhone7 purchased from Amazon.
Just a note, when I first moved here I still had a year left on a US Sprint contract. The line cost $60 per month but international texting was included and roaming was 20 cents a minute. It also had free 2G mobile data which was enough for Waze & GPS. Since most of the people here use WhatsApp, I just used that and most places had WiFi. My US calls were business related so I was able to expense the roaming charges. Plus, my business contacts could still call my US number. When the Sprint contract ended, I canceled it.