Mexico Roaming is very expensive in the US. $1.50 a minute with Sprint and T-Mobile and $0.99 with AT&T if you don't have a special Mexico plan (which drops it to $0.69). Telcel usually bleeds a lot into the US on border cities.
People in Mexico also get some bleed in from AT&T into Tijuana, and there are parts of the city where you will lose Telcel and the phone will roam in to AT&T and stay there and you also get charged with roaming.
T-Mobile is actually VERY good at limiting their coverage outside the US (or at least in CA). Their signal, from what I've seen, does not bleed in more than 1 mile into Tijuana, and usually just crossing the border drops your call. Same thing with Verizon and Iusacell.
Wait, you mean VZW isn't the most expensive on in that category? Ha! (I know you didn't say that, I'm just tired of the trolls saying VZW is pricier than everyone else in everything)
When I was in Mexico (Puerto Penasco aka Rocky Point) 2 years ago for spring break not only did my VZW phone get excellent coverage there, I was only charged 69 cents a minute for the roaming calls I made.
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Mexico Roaming is very expensive in the US. $1.50 a minute with Sprint and T-Mobile and $0.99 with AT&T if you don't have a special Mexico plan (which drops it to $0.69). Telcel usually bleeds a lot into the US on border cities.
People in Mexico also get some bleed in from AT&T into Tijuana, and there are parts of the city where you will lose Telcel and the phone will roam in to AT&T and stay there and you also get charged with roaming.
T-Mobile is actually VERY good at limiting their coverage outside the US (or at least in CA). Their signal, from what I've seen, does not bleed in more than 1 mile into Tijuana, and usually just crossing the border drops your call. Same thing with Verizon and Iusacell.
Wait, you mean VZW isn't the most expensive on in that category? Ha! (I know you didn't say that, I'm just tired of the trolls saying VZW is pricier than everyone else in everything)
When I was in Mexico (Puerto Penasco aka Rocky Point) 2 years ago for spring break not only did my VZW phone get excellent coverage there, I was only charged 69 cents a minute for the roaming calls I made.