Talk:Peru/@comment-32853647-20170814071421

Claro:

Claro supports LTE band 7 now in Lima and also outside Lima, which is a very common band in Europe and Asia. They also support 4G+ using carrier aggregation on LTE bands 7 + 28 (and the coverage of 4G+ in Lima is larger than that of Movistar). So for phones supporting band 7 and 28 you will rarely see band 2 used in Lima.

Claro didn't do well in the OpenSignal report for Peru because they had only 10 MHz spectrum on band 2 at that time, now they have 4G+ of band 7 (20 MHz) and band 28 (15 MHz) so they can do much better. It seems they have worked hard on expanding their network on band 28 as well (as has Movistar, but Claro even more it seems). In a few locations they have band 2 with 10 MHz (or in more rural areas 5 MHz) but generally they have good coverage on the other bands.

I would say that you don't miss out on much if you go with Claro instead of Movistar, they are both working hard at expanding their networks. For example, it happened in one smaller town that Movistar only had 2G coverage while Claro had full coverage using LTE band 28.

The Claro SIMs were tested and activated at the Claro office by the clerk and started to work immedately. Also everyone I talked with in the Claro office knew English (and this was not even in Miraflores but San Borja). Claro also had the least paperwork, I didn't need to sign anything and they didn't ask for my address either.