Prepaid mobile phone prices in Montevideo, Uruguay
I have a hard time understanding how I will be charged in Montevideo, Urugay for my phone. I've seen this answer which links me to this wiki page with the prices of all mobile operators. I'm an exchange student and will be visiting Uruguay in a few weeks and spend about 6 weeks there. I bring two friends, who will probably use the same mobile operator. I want to call them cheaply but it is also important to call my host without spending a fortune (who will probably be using another operator). I use a lot of data (about 1-2GBs per month) but I don't care about LTE (since I will be using an old iPhone 3GS).
If I chose Claro, I'd probably spend $104.23 on data alone. That is way above my budget and I don't even know who much data I'm allowed to use. Did I miss something here, because this seems to be unrealistic.
Antel seem to be the best option to choose. The SIM card is just $2.27 and as far as I've understood, I'll get 250 SMS, 3 free destinations (i.e. 1000 min to a landline, 1000 mins, and 1000 SMS to another Antel mobile. I'll also get to choose 5 numbers I can talk to for just $0.05. This seems to be incredible cheap. Data is also cheap so maybe I'm wrong. $23.70 for almost 2GBs for the whole stay is fair, however, I'm not sure if I have to choose Prepaid Mobile Broadband or Prepaid Mobile Internet.
I don't get Movistars data prices at all. Do they charge me for every 50MB? Do they actually distinguish between "social media" (e.g. Facebook) and other services? I will be using VPN anyways, so they won't (hopefully) be able to analyze my traffic.
I was hoping someone (local) could help me understand their pricing policies and what I is best for my case.
Best Answer
I'm not local from uruguay, but I spent a few summer vacations there. It semes that ANTEL has around 50% of the mobile market and, as far as I remember, ANTEL was the only company providing POTS telephony in Uruguay. It used to be a nation-wide monopoly and it seems to remain this way as this link (in spanish) says. That's why they can provide a much cheaper service for mobile phones, they have a great share of customers both in landline and mobile telephony.
The prices for mobile internet in ANTEL can be seen here (also in spanish). Looks like you'll pay less than US$20 (UYU 500) for 2Gb of data. For voice, if you choose the super plan, you'll get 1.000 minutes to a landline, 2.000 minutes to 2 mobiles and another 5 friends for US$0,05/minute (UYU 0,99) for US$11,90 (UYU 319).
Are those prices within your budget allowance? I suppose it can't get any cheaper than that and ANTEL seems like a good choice.
P.S.: I'm not in any way affiliated with ANTEL.
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