Uruguay Mobile Internet: stay in touch during your trip

Uruguay Mobile Internet: stay in touch during your trip

Renting a My Webspot handheld wifi for Uruguay is the perfect solution to stay connected to the Uruguay mobile Internet during your holidays.

Pocket wifi is also known as mini router, wireless router, portable wifi or hotspot wifi. The wifi hotspot is not yet very well known by the French. But it is the solution most used by foreign travellers.

The mini router is a mobile modem that allows you to create a wifi point. You can create it at any time and from any place during your stay in Uruguayan territory. It is the ideal way to have mobile internet in Uruguay

Uruguay Mobile Internet: Rental of portable Wifi

Portable wifi is a mobile modem that receives local 4G (or H+, 3G+, 3G+, 3G) and redistributes it in a wifi network within a radius of 15 meters. It allows access to a private, secure and unlimited internet connection. The download speed is 100 Mb per second in 4G LTE. It can be shared with 10 devices with a simultaneous wifi option. In addition, the mini router can be taken everywhere with you without being the least annoying because it is really small and lightweight. It can, for example, be slipped into a pocket of your pants.

In Uruguay, large cities such as Montevideo, Ciudad de la Costa, Salto, Paysandu, Las Piedras, Rivera and Maldonado have excellent 4G coverage. But if you need to stay in a smaller town or village, be aware that pocket wifi will adapt. It will connect through the various providers of the Uruguayan mobile network, in order to ensure optimal and total coverage throughout the country.

The wireless hotspost router for Uruguay from My Webspot is available from 6.40 Euros per day. It offers a private, secure and unlimited internet connection in 4G LTE. To book your rental or get more information, visit My Webspot.com

Free Wifi in Uruguay

Free wifi in Uruguay is an occasional troubleshooting solution for travelers who want to access an Internet connection during their stay. Moreover, in this function, it can be very useful. However, if you need a frequent and daily connection, free wifi will not satisfy you. Indeed, its connection is weak, slow and can be disconnected. In this case, it will be very difficult to perform actions such as starting a conversation on Skype, sharing photos on social networks, watching videos on Youtube.

Concerning Montevideo, click on the link to find out where the free wifi is located in the city. Please note that these free wifi are generally available in public places. Like bars, cafés, restaurants or hotels, a minimum purchase will often be required to get the wifi code in return.

Finally, the great risk of free wifi in Uruguay (as everywhere) is that all malicious people, located nearby, are likely to be able to intercept and even control all the information transmitted between your computer. Your wifi access point, being public, the connection is not private or secure.

Prepaid SIM cards in Uruguay

The prepaid SIM card in Uruguay is a solution very rarely used by travelers. Because it's not very practical.

First, you will need to find a point of sale. Then you will need to provide a bank account and a local address with the mobile network operator. From there, you will be able to access the Internet, thanks to your prepaid SIM card. But if the cost of local calls is very advantageous, it is much less so for international calls. In addition, Internet access is still relatively very high. The proposed connection is at 3G speed, which is far behind the 4G of My Webspot's pocket wifi.

Finally, to avoid having to buy a phone on the spot. Check in advance that your current phone is compatible with Uruguayan frequency bands. If so, you can use it, but at the expense of your current phone. He will no longer be reachable while using the prepaid SIM card.

Data from abroad in Uruguay

Data abroad is better known as Data Roaming. This is the solution to avoid at all costs! It is the worst and most risky solution.

Data Roaming consists of continuing to use your phone and your usual chip to connect to the Internet during your holidays in Uruguay. Knowing that Bouygues and Orange charge per unit for each MB used and that the average traveller consumes between 500/800 MB every day, the invoice can very quickly reach very high amounts.

If you don't want to take the risk of receiving an exorbitant invoice. So opt instead for a less risky and more efficient solution

Data Roaming consists of continuing to use your phone and your usual chip to connect to the Internet during your holidays in Uruguay. Knowing that Bouygues and Orange charge per unit for each MB used and that the average traveller consumes between 500/800 MB every day, the invoice can very quickly reach very high amounts.

If you don't want to take the risk of receiving an exorbitant invoice. So opt instead for a less risky and more efficient solution such as My Webspot's pocket wifi.

There, you all know about the Uruguayan mobile internet.

*Unlimited internet with Daily Fair Usage Policy applies. Europe & USA: 1GB in 4G/LTE - Mexico : 2GB - South East Asia, Japan & China: Unlimited 4G/LTE - Rest of the world: 500MB in 4G /LTE. Throttled speed of up to 512kbps afterwards.