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I assume when it comes to dealing with people living abroad, some banks are friendlier than others.

The problem is usually with receiving, not with sending/forwarding. In the US, you are supposed to sign USPS Form 1583 with a notary for a company to receive your mail. After that, they forward it according to your instructions.

Also, you can keep the plan but renew it before Tello charges you for the next month, and then your minutes and gigabytes roll over. You can even renew the same plan a day before your credit card is charged again.

I didn’t know Tello had a "Pay as You Go" option. I haven't seen anything like that listed on their website. Did you have to contact customer support to get it added to your account, or was it something you were able to activate yourself somehow? I’m curious how you managed to get that set up...

I don’t want to say it’s always the case, but on a couple of occasions when I called restaurants directly, they quoted me a higher price than on PedidosYa. So maybe someone is losing that 35%, but it doesn’t necessarily mean you gain anything from it.

So, do you have a US phone number associated with this SIM card? When you go to the Tello site, what do you see there?

So far, the only positive stories I've heard about using physical SIMs abroad were from people who activated the SIM in the US first, then brought it here. How do you know the service is fully activated? Do you already have a phone number assigned? Since the Tello rep seemed confident, maybe...

Yes. If your phone supports eSIM, you can sign up for Tello and activate it from Argentina - or from any other country, for that matter.

I've seen Hausler mentioned as a company that's been offering this for years. No personal experience, though. Hausler came up in the Nisman case. Apparently, he had a deposit box there.

Check out this thread: https://baexpats.org/threads/getting-a-non-voip-us-phone-number-from-tello-for-2fa.46924/

So when the airline check-in agent asks if you have a return ticket, and you will show some letter in Spanish. Would you be able to convince him or her that this letter authorizes your entry and stay in Argentina beyond the typical 90-day tourist limit. If you can do that, then you will be fine...

If the service is registered under someone else’s name, only the account holder can make changes. Usually, they don’t bother transferring the account - they just let you pay the bills directly, or they pay and ask you to reimburse them.

For internet providers, once you check service availability by submitting a form on their website, they usually call you within an hour to arrange the installation. You can also call their 0800 number, and most companies have a WhatsApp chatbot you can use to schedule the service installation...

There’s also mobile internet. With Claro, for example, you can buy a 40 GB data pack for around 25k pesos. Just tell them you absolutely need internet and that you're ready to pay for it. Let them figure out the details.

Check with your portero . In buildings with more than 4 units, internet providers usually have a connection box already installed. The portero can tell you which companies have coverage in your building. There are two major residential internet providers - Personal and Telecentro. "No Fibra...

I think you can state that you want to keep your current health insurance and arrange for the amount paid through monotributo to be redirected and applied toward your existing coverage. Then it will basically get counted as part of your premiums.

With margins over 50% on the iPhone, Apple seems to be doing just fine in a capitalist society.

I doubt there are many people out there holding Argentine pesos in foreign bank accounts.

This includes an estimate of the bank fee, which is not charged by Visa itself. I have one card where the bank doesn’t charge anything, and another where the bank charges 3%. Visa doesn’t know that. If your bank does charge a fee, it will likely appear as a separate transaction.