Where to buy a mobile line or Sim Card in Colombia? Exito, Tigo, Movistar

If you visit Colombia and want to have a cell phone line or sim card, we present several options.

Keep in mind that in many public places you find free Wi-Fi and in Colombia WhatsApp is widely used, so you could make calls through this application for free without having to buy a line. However, if you want to have a cell phone line and a data plan to have internet, these are the companies that offer the service in Colombia and where you can buy a Sim Card with prepaid plans.

A prepaid plan allows you to top up the balance on the Sim card and the telephone company deducts the consumption made on the line from the balance. The companies in Colombia offer plans of only minutes that allow calling or plans with a number of gigabytes to surf the internet.

Below we present the options of cell phone companies in Colombia.

Móvil Éxito

Exito is a very popular chain store in Colombia. You find it in most cities in the country. In the boxes where you pay, you find the SIMs that cost around $10,000 pesos $3 dollars approx. In the boxes or on the website you can recharge to have minutes to talk or a data plan with gigabytes to have internet. When you buy the Sim they give you a balance value. Too easy.

Here you can see the packages: https://www.movilexito.com/productos/paquetes

In addition, there are 4 companies where you can approach and request a prepaid line in Colombia. You can find the service points of these companies in the main malls and popular areas.

You just have to go to one of the service points, buy the sim card and activate the service to obtain mobile telephony and internet data plan. You must present the documentation (passport and address where you are staying) and it is mandatory by law that they register the phone’s IMEI. Recharging the sim card is very easy, you can do it at service points, neighborhood stores, web pages, telephone booths and neighborhood miscellaneous, supermarkets, drugstore chains, and the most important courier companies in the country.

Keep in mind that the companies with the best coverage are Claro, Tigo, and Movistar. So if you want to have a more stable connection, go with one of these 3 options.