A guide to find the best prepaid SIM card in Argentina
Argentina has 3 main telco service providers
Claro
Movistar
Personal
Claro
Claro is the leading telecommunication service provider in Argentina, some of their top prepaid plans include:
Prepaguero tripilica plan- This plan offers 50MB of data for AR$7
Prepago Nacional plan- offers 50 MB of data daily for AR$ 4.3
Both plans are valid for 24 hours when you use up your 50MB, you can still access the internet though the added data packs have a much slower speed.
Weekly data plans cost AR$40.
Prepaid airtime vouchers (Tarjeta prepagas) are available for Claro SIM cards ( referred to as SIM chips in Argentina) starting at AR$5.
Send your voucher code to *444# to activate it.
Movistar
Movistar is the second telco service provider. They also have prepaid plans similar to those of Claro but their plans are slightly cheaper.
Movistar also has internet only SIM cards known as internet prepago whose prepaid data plans start at AR$18 for 200MB.
Personal
Though it comes in third, personal is actually gaining ground on Claro and Movistar. Their most popular prepaid plans are their unlimited internet plans worth AR$34 for 7 days and AR$109 for 30 days.