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Claro: Leading Nicaragua into the 21st Century with first-world prices and third-world technology.

The three magic words of Claro customer service: No, No and No!

At Claro, the matchless beauty of our customer service representatives is exceeded only by their bovine sloth.

Please be patient. E-mail service in your barrio will improve greatly next week when we take delivery of a new flock of carrier pigeons.

As you personal Claro customer service rep, I will be pleased to give your request top priority as soon as I learn how to add and subtract.

I have a topology challenged home just south of SJdS, and I need internet to get some work done on my next trip down. I have both Movistar and Claro weak signals on the property at present- but Movistar is the more reliable. I am bringing a wideband GSM signal booster down, with amp and directional antenna. I'd like to create a small wifi zone in the house, so I will be renting the Movistar GSM router. However, I will also bring my own unlocked router down to see if it will operate with a purchased Movistar data-enabled SIM (I can always return it if not...).

Well, I tried it and it's just a Beta, but for someone addicted to Weeds, Spartacus, and Magic City it might beat that huge satellite antenna I was looking at (advantage of the really big ones is that they break down into smaller pieces). Plus, the pieces don't look like a satellite antenna when they are disassembled. I was planning on telling the customs people that it was concrete forms for an igloo, like at Cool Top.

When I was there a couple weeks ago, I saw that there was cable plant in town so I'm guessing that I can get a cable modem there on top of DSL. What are the prices there and what kind of speeds can I get? I feel the Claro site is a bit vague on what's available in a given area.

Hello all,

Any satellite dish retailers in Nicaragua where you can get ku band dishes, especially 1.8m or larger to get Directv signal?

Would I be able purchase a prepaid cell phone at the airport in Managua? If not there, any other suggestions that aren't too far out of the way? Our ultimate destination is SJDS. Any idea what we'd be looking price wise? Trying to stay somewhat reachable for my kids back home is proving to be more of a challenge than I thought.

I bought a plan for my Android phone and found that Claro seems unable to not add another phone to the deal even though they could put the plan on the Android's number. The newest phone has Bluetooth and can be mounted as a USB mass storage device, so I'm keeping it as the backup/guest phone.

In doing some business research I was looking at Enitel international rates. Specifically, this page. There are some pretty strange things there. Am I reading this right and, probably more important, is it true?

Phone home?

"This is a standalone voice bridge device that can be connected to a standard telephone and it does not require a PC."

See: Obi100 VoIP Telephone Adapter at Cool Tools.

Has anyone connect their Direct TV services in Nicaragua? I know that you need to face it to the southern sky in order to get a feed, but I want to know how reliable it is, and if anyone has had any problems with it.

I'm going to recently travel to Nicaragua and I currently have an Android phone with T-Mobile, it has a SIM card and everything. So I guess what I was wondering is if its going to work in Nicaragua. Please let me know if someone has recently travel with one of these phone over there. Thanks William

Does anyone know anything more on Yota working on their 4g service for the Granada area? Would/could/should be a great advantage over 3g if it ever arrives. Their website mentions sometime in 2010. http://yota.com.ni/es/info/main/

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I Think I Will Be Forgiven Submitted by KeyWestPirate on Sat, 2010/06/05 - 16:35.

for hi-jacking this particular thread:

Does anyone have a dish picking up DirecTV? I know it's a bit far south, but I saw several successful installations in Trujillo, Honduras using 2 meter dishes. The dishes seem to be readily available in Honduras, and it wouldn't be that tough to get one into Nicaragua. The receiver (s) are small and light and could be suitcased down.

Does anyone know of a place to buy RG8 coaxial cable in northern Nicaragua? Nothing doing around Ocotal. Thanks for any tips that may fall this way!