Satisfied Mobile Internet Customer

For the past few months, Costa Rica Cellular Connection has offereda mobile internet product on the Costa Rica 3G network. Wireless internet offers a great way for travelers to access travel plans, email, friends back home, and the world wide web in general. Those who have used one our Data Cards, have generally had rave reviews on the service. One of these clients was nice enough to write up a review on the Trip Advisor Web Site, which, in our eyes is one of the best travel resources available today.

If you are considering your options, please read the Trip Advisor review for a candid take on our wireless internet service. Have a great trip!

Costa Rica Cellular Connection offers cell phone and wireless internet options for travelers heading to beautiful Costa Rica. Contact us today for more information at www.costaricacellularconnection.com or by phone at 1-866-353-6492.

Nut-trients race to cure hunger in Costa Rica

As we mentioned earlier, one of our clients was embarking on a great journey across Costa Rica on the Ruta de las Conquistadores to help fight world hunger (http://nut-rients.com/blog/). The race went as planned and even received some attention from the Tico Times.

Costa Rica Cellular Connection was proud to help a good cause and provide the team with our cellular telephones for Costa Rica, and our new Costa Rica mobile internet card product.

Here is a copy of the blog they were kind enough to write about Costa Rica Cellular Connection, and how our products helped their journey across Costa Rica.. by foot!

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COSTA RICA CELLULAR: This company provided us with telecommunications—including cell phones and a cellular internet card for our computer—and loads of minutes. This technology kept my crew on course and allowed them to upload blogs and photos on the fly.

On the last night of the run, the phone became an important survival tool as I passed through a dangerous part of Caribbean Costa Rica known for drug trafficking and violent crime. A route miscalculation made me think I’d pass through this zone during daylight, so I didn’t pack my flashlight or coordinate the kind of clear rendezvous point required after dark. The course for that day was many kilometers longer than I thought and it was already dark and storming when I entered the area. I ran for about two hours in the dark, feeling my way south as best I could through the woods and shanties fronting the beach, doing my best not to draw attention to myself. My crew wasn’t where I expected them to be and I became convinced that I was off course. Then I remembered that I was packing an emergency phone provided Costa Rica Cellular. I turned it on with great relief and my crew talked me to the next checkpoint. Without that backup phone I might still be wandering the Caribbean coast......."

Costa Rica Cellular Connection has always been the most affordable and friendliest telecommunications solution for people traveling to Costa Rica. Contact us today for 3G phones for Costa Rica, prepaid and post paid cell phones for Costa Rica, and now your Wireless Internet solution for Costa Rica as well. www.costaricacellularconnection.com or by phone at 1-866-353-6492. Happy Holidays!

Android Operating System Phones for Costa Rica!

As always, a lot of the great ideas we get come from customers who rented one of our cellular phones or mobile internet devices for Costa Rica. We just got another good idea from a customer who was traveling to Costa Rica and had a mobile phone with the Android Operating System back in the States. The customer decided to take the SIM card out one of our Costa Rica cell phones and put that SIM into their Android phone that wasn't operating on the Costa Rica network. Good news! The customer was able to make calls and access the broadband wireless internet around the country, along with having all the regular app's that they had grown accustomed to back home. Let us know if you have a Android phone when you rent from us!

If you don't have an Android phone and would still like to stay connected in Costa Rica by phone and internet in Costa Rica, don't worry. We can accommodate you with our own phones! Contact us today at www.costaricacellularconnection.com or by phone at 1-866-353-6492!

Holiday High Season

Hello Travelers,

Costa Rica Cellular Connection would like to take the opportunity to wish you a happy and safe holiday season. We know this can be a busy time of year for everyone and we hope everyone takes a few minutes to enjoy their time with friends and family.

We know first hand how busy it can be because every year around this time we seem to run out of cell phones and data cards to rent. If communication is a must, please reserve phones or wireless broadband internet cards early, so can you can stay in touch when you are traveling in Costa Rica. Once we run out, it can be very challenging to secure more mobile phone lines, or wireless internet lines, so we can't just flip a switch for additional customers.

Costa Rica Cellular Connection rents cellular phones and prepaid sim cards for Costa Rica, and now offers Mobile Broadband internet so you can travel with your laptop while enjoying Costa Rica. Please visit our website at www.costaricacellularconnection.com or contact by phone at 1-866-353-6492. Whether you are a study abroad student in Costa Rica, visiting a language school in Costa Rica, or just heading to Costa Rica for vacation, we can help you stay connected at the most affordable prices out there!

Costa Rica Cellular Connection Sponsors a Great Cause

Hey travelers. Thank you for coming to our site. We hope we can take care of all your telecommunication needs, for both cellular phones and wireless internet while you travel and study in Costa Rica.

We also hope you will help us support a great cause, as some of Costa Rica Cellular Connection clients have committed to helping fight Malnutrition in central america.

..."On December 4, 2010, endurance athletes Will Laughlin of Boulder, CO, and Roman Urbina of San Jose, Costa Rica, will begin a 261 mile run across Costa Rica to raise funds for Nut-rients Foundation’s efforts to fight global childhood malnutrition."

Costa Rica Cellular Connection is proud to donate some resources to help make sure the volunteers make it across their wild journey safe and sound. For more information please take a few minutes and check out: http://nut-rients.com/blog/

Contact us today at 1-866-353-6492 or on the web at www.costaricacellularconnection.com, for all your cell phone rental, and mobile internet needs for Costa Rica!

Roaming in CR

Over the past 6+ years, of renting cell phones and wireless internet for Costa Rica, we have gotten countless questions about US carrier cellular phones roaming in Costa Rica. It is possible, albeit at ridiculously expensive rates, on a limited number of carriers, however most Verizon cell phones WILL NOT work in Costa Rica. Most Sprint phones will not work either. This is basically because their technology is not compatible with the network in Costa Rica. You will need a phone that takes a GSM sim card (not cdma like Verizon), unlocked, and compatible with the frequencies that the Costa Rican network is on. If you have a mobile internet card in the US, regardless of the carrier, this WILL not work with the Costa Rican phone network.

Because of the recent weather issues in Costa Rica causing emergencies and road closers, a few people traveling with some Costa Rican Cellular Connection customers found this out the hard way. Luckily for them, our customers were nice enough to loan them our phones and datacards to let people know back in the States that they were OK!

Costa Rica Cellular Connection has been providing Cellular and Mobile Internet applications for travelers heading to Costa Rica for over 6 years! Contact us today at 1-866-353-6492 or on the web a www.costaricacellularconnection.com.

iPhone Connection in Costa Rica w/o the huge roaming rates!

Sometimes our best ideas at Costa Rica Cellular Connection come from the ingenuity of our customers. We recently launched our mobile wireless internet product for Costa Rica, to rave reviews with regards to speeds and coverage. The 3g network for Costa Rica has also allowed for greater coverage for our cellular phone rentals as well.

We had a customer who, like many iPhone users, felt awkward without having their trusty iphone with them in Costa Rica, but didn't want to pay the outrageous roaming fees that AT&T would charge them for using it in Costa Rica, usually $2-$3/minute. Since leaving home without the iPhone wasn't an option for this person, they successfully used the sim card from out datacards, to access the internet where ever there travels took them in Costa Rica. They didn't have to look for hotspots or internet cafes to access the web. On top of that, because our service works so well, they were able to use Skype VoIp, and google talk to call home for basically nothing! At the end of the trip, the customer was wishing the AT&T coverage was half as good as the coverage in Costa Rica. Maybe one day they will catch up!

Contact us today at 1-866-353-6492, or on the internet at www.costaricacellularconnection.com for all you, cell phone rental, prepaid sim card, and mobile wireless internet while traveling or studying in Costa Rica!

GMAIL VOICE, 3G Coverage, Mobile Internet

Costa Rica Cellular Connection has always provided travelers with cellular phone rentals for Costa Rica, and recently added a Mobile Broadband Internet Product to allow people to connect to the internet anywhere in Costa Rica.

We've had a couple positive things happen with regards to the coverage on both products. With our data card service, customers have reported great coverage, almost everywhere. The second great thing is, ICE, the Costa Rican telecommunications company, built out the 3G network to accommodate mobile data, and this has really helped the coverage foot print for our 3g phones that we also rent. We are happy to report (mainly through customer feedback!) that coverage is getting really good in Costa Rica.

Other good news- Google has added a product to their GMAIL application that should allow for our wireless internet users to save money. The product is called google voice, and we have found it to be by far the cheapest VOiP option out there. This means a customer of ours, who travels to Costa Rica with a laptop, could rent a USB wireless internet card from us, and use it to connect to the internet and make calls, saving them money. Check it out!

Connect Costa Rica Cellular Connection today by phone at 1-866-353-6492 or on the web at www.costaricacellularconnection.com. Costa Rica Cellular Connection is the most affordable rental option for cellular phones, prepaid phones, and mobile wireless internet for Costa Rica.

Coverage in Manuel Antonio!

We just had the pleasure of having a few days of vacation in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica. We like going there near the end of August and early September, because the crowds usually mellow out, and this year was no different. We took the time to test our new high speed mobile internet product and our cell phones for quality of coverage in the area. Good news-they both worked great! Coverage has always been spotty with TDMA and GSM phones once you get over the hill close to the beach and park.

We were pleased to find we could use our data cards, to get high speed internet (we could even use skype) and use our new 3G phones EVERYWHERE, including in the park. We had the same experience driving up and down the central Pacific, even down past the remote beach town of Uvita ( beautiful beach by the way. Here's a picture!).

Here's a picture of Andrea answering one your emails with the waves crashing about 50 meters away, on the north side of the main beach in Manuel Antonio!

We are happy to see improvements in the network and technology. Manuel Antonio is world renowned and many of our clients who rent mobile phones from us go there.

Costa Rica Cellular Connection rents cellular phones and prepaid sim cards for Costa Rica, and now offers Mobile Broadband internet so you can travel with your laptop while enjoying Costa Rica. Please visit our website at www.costaricacellularconnection.com or contact by phone at 1-866-353-6492. Whether you are a study abroad student in Costa Rica, visiting a language school in Costa Rica, or just heading to Costa Rica for vacation, we can help you stay connected at the most affordable prices out there!

DATA CARD TESTIMONIAL ~INTERNET SERVICE

TESTIMONIAL

"Hi Andrea, It was our first time in Costa Rica and I wasn't sure how reliable a company like CRCC would be. To my pleasent surprise, the level of customer service, the speed and great products CRCC provide exceeded my expectation. I used their wireless broadband internet card for two weeks in Samara, Carillo, Tamarindo, Papagayo and the Liberia airport. In *all* locations the card worked perfectly. I could place calls by Skype while traveling in my car and even in the remote areas of Carillo it worked perfectly. Thank you very much!"

Thanks,

Kevin Goldman
Goldman Design Inc., Scottsdale, AZ USA