Talk:Chile/@comment-172.97.63.60-20180102132725/@comment-24682153-20180112225312

Hi. I just found the declaration of SUBTEL, the Chilean regulator. If you can read Spanish you will find it here: link to Subtel. Some quotes:

''"If you come to our country there are many documents and procedures that you must perform and that you can not forget, but enabling your mobile phone will not be one of them. This is thanks to the modification that the Undersecretariat of Telecommunications made in November to the Multiband / SAE Regulation, which will allow users to visit our country to use their mobile devices without having to make an administrative registration to operate.

So when arriving in Chile during the summer period, mobile devices have access to the service in the local networks of our country, either using a SIM Card enabled, accessing Wi-Fi networks or with Roaming contracted in the country originally.

The decision of the authority comes to facilitate access for foreigners when entering Chile and acquire a local voice and data service to use their own mobile equipment, and does not affect in any way those who already they went through this procedure previously.

The period of adaptation of the regulations governs from November 28 and is valid for 120 days. At the end of that period the administrative registration will be a much simpler and practically transparent step for the user who wishes to use his device in our country. All equipment that is activated in the country during this period will be automatically enabled to work forever without further formalities to regularize them."''

So this regulation of whitelisting your device seems to be temporarily suspended. We need to see what happens in April 2018, but hopefully they have realized the problems for travellers.