Talk:Brazil/@comment-76.115.15.49-20150908043848

Just spent two weeks in Brazil.

FORGET the TIM Visitor SIM. I went to the four biggest stores in São Paulo the first day I was there. The first three don't know what it is, the fourth had it, but the system wouldn't let them sell it to me. Surprise!!! Welcome to Brazil.

Just get a regular TIM Infinity Pré SIM and do the following: Upon the lengthy registration, and subsequent few hours it takes for the SIM to be activated (honestly, get with the rest of the world, please, Brazil. You can walk into a store, buy a SIM and be on the street with it working in most countries within 20 mins), text SIM200 to the number 2000. This will give you 200MB a day for R$3.29, which is less than 1 USD a day. 200MB is pretty much about what one would use as a visitor. Pro tip: If you use more than 200MB in one day, it will direct you to a website from your phone where you can get another 200MB for the same R$3.29.

One thing to note: much like it used to be in the USA years ago, you are assigned to a local area, when you leave that, you're roaming and calls are much more. SMS and Internet, however, are considered nationwide. So for a traveller, even tho you might be going from state to state, you're mostly just using the internet, maybe occasionally making a call. This, in my experience, was the best plan of action with the least amount of stress and heartache. How can you have a product such as Infinity Visitor listed prominently on your website specifically for foreigners, yet none of your employees know it exists?!