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If you have a cellular telephone, you can use it to roam in San Felipe. Follow Me Roaming can be activated each day by dialing *18 send. This will forward US calls to you in San Felipe but you will incur costs of the long distance and roaming fees. Roaming fees are about $2/day plus 40¢/min. If you are staying for some time, you might want to get your cellular telephone activated for local service by Baja Celular or Telcel. (For the latest information from Baja Celular and their rates, check their web site http://www.bajacelular.com.mx/main.html (in Spanish). Check Telcel at http://www.telcel.com/). Baja Celular has a new plan in which they will assign you a local number and give you 100 minutes of airtime for a total cost of around $12 per month. Additional airtime is about 15¢ per minute. You cannot use this service to roam outside San Felipe. The charges, plus long distance costs are charged to your credid card. Visit the friendly, bilingual, staff at the office on Calzada Chetumal. A regular cellular account (which allows roaming in the USA and other parts of Mexico) costs around $90 to hook up and $26/month for service. Airtime costs $0.20/minute day or night. You will need a US credit card and credit check for this regular service. Long distance charges are lowest 7pm to 7am, all day Saturdays and till 4pm Sundays. A 5 minute cellular call to Los Angeles on a Saturday would cost about $3.60, about the same as a call from a pay phone. An incoming 5 minute call will cost you the equivalent of about $2 in airtime. The cellular systems now cover you for the entire distance from Mexicali (with a few dead spots) to approximately km 35 to the south of town towards Puertecitos.