Traveling to Mexico will my Boost Mobile get service there???

Please help?? I am traveling to Mexico and want to know if boost mobile cell phones (or walkie talkie feature) will get coverage over there??? prepaid phone cards

are you traveling by canoe?

elatrosbear wrote: Please help?? I am traveling to Mexico and want to know if boost mobile cell phones (or walkie talkie feature) will get coverage over there???

Short answer: No, your phone will not work in Mexico.

Long Answer: Will sort of work if you have a push-to-talk (IDEN) handset. That is, while you are standing in a few well populated area, you can place cell calls and walkie talkie calls to other people who have Nextel of Mexico phones(NII: Nextel International Inc.)

While standing in Mexico:
Boost to Boost call never works.
Boost to landline call never works
Landline to Boost never works.

Boost to NII works in a few places
NII to Boost works in a few places.
Those few places are shown in red on this map.
http://www.boostmobile.com/coverage/pdf/camx.pdf

Never works at all if you have a Boost handset that does not have push-to-talk (like and Android.)

If this is a canoe, I suspect this is far more of an answer than you expected.

I doubt that he has any idea what a canoe is. And, why is he asking this question on a car forum, where many of us are still using two tin cans and string, Because we're cheap.

Two used tin cans, please. We're not that fancy.

jrw1621 wrote:

elatrosbear wrote: Please help?? I am traveling to Mexico and want to know if boost mobile cell phones (or walkie talkie feature) will get coverage over there???

Short answer: No, your phone will not work in Mexico. Long Answer: Will sort of work if you have a push-to-talk (IDEN) handset. That is, while you are standing in a few well populated area, you can place cell calls and walkie talkie calls to other people who have Nextel of Mexico phones(NII: Nextel International Inc.) While standing in Mexico: Boost to Boost call never works. Boost to landline call never works Landline to Boost never works. Boost to NII works in a few places NII to Boost works in a few places. Those few places are shown in red on this map. http://www.boostmobile.com/coverage/pdf/camx.pdf Never works at all if you have a Boost handset that does not have push-to-talk (like and Android.) If this is a canoe, I suspect this is far more of an answer than you expected.

You are correct sir. I did not expect this answer in the slightest. How do you know that about Boost mobile in Mexico?

I am no longer but was an employee for 7 years. First employee in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky which I was responsible for.

BoxheadTim wrote: Two *used* tin cans, please. We're not that fancy.

But somehow engineered to be able to make international calls.

mndsm wrote:

BoxheadTim wrote: Two *used* tin cans, please. We're not that fancy.

But somehow engineered to be able to make international calls.

would that need to be a tin from UK and one from the US to call across the atlantic?

IN MY EXPERIENCE- You are best off buying a disposable phone where you are traveling and a minute card. If you are really after all the features of the most modern phone- not so much.