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**Quigoxito** · 11-15-2011, 06:12 PM

Ok I got this to work on an android. I no longer have an iPhone but it should work fine there too. You need to go to Claro and get a sim card for a blackberry and buy some prepaid days or a week of BB Social in the store so you know they actually set it up to work for a BB. If you have an old BB or a friend with one take it in and then you can verify before you leave. I just went to several different shops until I found one that would do it for me without physically having a BB with me. The only caveat is that the data speed seems to be capped at .27Mbps. The first two days it was unlimited (3-5Mbps!) then it dropped and has remained throttled ever since. I'm still trying to find a way around that.

Claro is closing a lot of loopholes if you are using a smartphone. I have an iphone 4 with a sim for prepago. I charged my iphone with 800 pesos in order to get one month of BB social (750 pesos). I tried to buy BB social by dialing *111#. I got the message "su subscrpcion no es BB". However, after I set up the APN=internet.ideasclaro.com.do, I was able to access internet from my iphone 4 without a BB social, only with 800 pesos of prepago. Within a minute, my 800 pesos were gone because of data download.

So be AWARE: Claro is charging every single byte you download with prepago without BB social! 800 pesos for one minute of data usage.

If anybody has a better solution to get high speed internet without paying a fortune, let us know.

11-15-2011, 06:12 PM	#20
Quigoxito Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 442 Senior Member	Ok I got this to work on an android. I no longer have an iPhone but it should work fine there too. You need to go to Claro and get a sim card for a blackberry and buy some prepaid days or a week of BB Social in the store so you know they actually set it up to work for a BB. If you have an old BB or a friend with one take it in and then you can verify before you leave. I just went to several different shops until I found one that would do it for me without physically having a BB with me. The only caveat is that the data speed seems to be capped at .27Mbps. The first two days it was unlimited (3-5Mbps!) then it dropped and has remained throttled ever since. I'm still trying to find a way around that. Claro is closing a lot of loopholes if you are using a smartphone. I have an iphone 4 with a sim for prepago. I charged my iphone with 800 pesos in order to get one month of BB social (750 pesos). I tried to buy BB social by dialing *111#. I got the message "su subscrpcion no es BB". However, after I set up the APN=internet.ideasclaro.com.do, I was able to access internet from my iphone 4 without a BB social, only with 800 pesos of prepago. Within a minute, my 800 pesos were gone because of data download. So be AWARE: Claro is charging every single byte you download with prepago without BB social! 800 pesos for one minute of data usage. If anybody has a better solution to get high speed internet without paying a fortune, let us know.
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