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Beware of T-Mobile in Costa Rica
So it appears that for some reason T-Mobile never switched my wife from Mexico to Costa Rica when we got here three months ago, it did however switch her service when we went to Panama for one day, w...
It's a matter of debate if this is still the case but in the past if you made a cellular call from a "Simple Choice" country to any "Simple Choice" country it was 25¢/min. If you made a WiFi call to any country, the call was charged as if dialed from the USA. Which was often around $3/min. If it costs $2.50/min to call the destination from Mexico and the system was confused about where the WiFi Call originated, it would cost the same thing in Costa Rica.
This sort of situation is why I avoid using T-Mobile for calling international destinations and fall back to Google Voice of Viber Out.
I once saw a complaint where someone made a WiFi call from Turkey which should have been free but the system thought he was calling from Tuvalu and charged something like $5/min.
