Cell phone plans

Maybe not such a new topic but......

OK....I am such an inexperienced Cel user having had the same plunky phone -make/receive calls, maybe text once in a blue moon, for about 5 yrs...that I am totally befuddled by all this new fangled technology, so come to the group for some guidance, please.

TelCel tells me that their monthly plans become double in price if I use an unlocked phone that my daughter want to bring to me from the US. Has anyone else had experience in bringing in a "foreign" phone?

What I want to do is to make/receive calls...send/receive messages and maybe access the internet for info when travelling. Is this feasible - practical - doable?

TIA!!!

just get a telcel sim card, and use the pay as you go plan....make sure the phone is not a sprint unit

It's called the Amiga plan, pay as you go, use any phone. No need for a "plan."

Hope I'm not hijacking, but I quit using my pay-as-you-go plan because I'd put 200 pesos on it and two days later they'd be gone having made 1 or 2 local calls. Couldn't get any solid answers from two different Tel-Cel offices.

Look at your phone.  You've probably got 3G, etc. enabled which eat your Pesos.  You can talk to the little Telcel office down the street next to Farmacia Cristina and they can sort it out for you. The Amiga system is the lowest cost way to go for most of us.

google amigo plans called pa200 or pa100
Or talk to the vendors
put 200 mn onto your number, then.....
Send a text (SMS) to 5050 with content PA200
You get many calls maany text etc

btw, there is movistar too

Better yet, soon there will be AT&T!