Staying connected in Bogota?

carrasco says on Dec 4, 2007, 18:45:

get the prepaid phone cards to call latin america normally are sold in mexican grocery stores,. ask wich one is giving more minutes at the time to call to colombia, also u can give the numbers in the card to your girl and she can call u back from colombia but she will get less minutes, than u,. the cards usually costs 3 or 5 bucks, and to colombia can get 2 or 3 hours for the 5$, .



i live in chicago and my fiance in barranquilla so it's your desition,.

busca una mujer la cual digas la pude haber encontrado mas bella, pero no mejor.

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gringoloid (Trustee board) says on Dec 4, 2007, 19:10:

if both of you download skype on your computers, you can talk for free.\\

I'm in Miami and I just talked to my girlfriend in Bogotá, with video, for one hour.....for Free!

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nathalie says on Dec 5, 2007, 06:40:

I live in the US and my family is in Colombia, so I know what you're going through.

First, I think you're being ripped off with your internet fee, my mom has ADSL (broadband) in a smaller city than Bogota and pays $55,000= pesos (about $28 dols) per month.

I'd recommend you to look at the different providers for example in Bogota ETB http://etb.com.co/segmentos/internet/ has internet for the same price my mom is paying.
(there's also TV cable which offers fast internet with affordable price http://www.intercable.net.co/ )
button line, put your girlfriend to explore different alternatives!!!! (I assume she speaks Spanish)

Now for telephone, what I did was buying a voice over IP line (www.broadvoice.com) and my relatives now have a US phone line at home in Colombia, it is pretty cheap ( $ 19 dols x month) and we can talk with excellent quality for hours!!!

When I really need to get a hold of them and they're not home I use a calling card, I know in California must be easier to find them, don't use the MEXICAN ones, look for the COLOMBIAN ones, since here in my town it is harder to find, I just buy them off the internet ( I use orbitel COLOMBIA
https://www.orbitel.com.co/irj/portal/anonymous?NavigationTarget=navur...)

For text messaging, I know there are some unlimited text plans in Colombia, http://www.movistar.com.co and they have agreement with American phone companies like T-mobile, AT&T and Verizon, but I don't really use this option.

I hope I was helpful :D

La Colombiana

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