Mobile in Costa Rica
We are planning to spend several months each year in Costa Rica. We have gotten a local US Skype number, so calls to that number will not be toll calls for people who want to reach us. My question is about subscriptions for using the call forwarding feature to forward those calls to our Costa Rican phone.
Our Costa Rican phone is a mobile phone, not a land line. It appears that I can only get unlimted minutes subscriptions for Latin America to land lines and that for forwarding calls to a mobile I need to buy a fixed number of minutes/month and then pay the overage at a higher per minute charge through Skype credit. Is my reading correct, that unlimited calls to Costa Rican mobile #s from a US number is not currently offered? If I am correct, may I ask why that is? And, more important to me than why is -- are there any prospects in the near term for a change in this situation.
Thanks in advance.
Ask your carrier to be sure that they support SMS and it is implement on your account with them.
Allan
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