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I'm taking a quick trip to Buenos Aires and while I know I can buy a SIM card for my phone, what I am curious about is the options of renting a cheap voice only phone while I am there.

Various websites offer such services in Buenos Aires and promise to deliver to your hotel (thus saving the time/hassle of hunting down a SIM card), but none mention prices or give me much confidence in their quality.

So do these sites deliver on their promises? And how does the cost stack up against a pre-paid SIM?

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Baires Apartments (a temporary rental and real state) offers phone rentals and, as you mention, they send it and pick it up for free (to/from the hotel, or to/from the airport).

The Cell phones are free of charge. You just pay the calls.

The rates are of course more expensive than a normal cellphone you can buy and top-up, but still not terrible:

Locals: AR$ 1,50 | National: AR$ 1,99 | Argentina - Mercosur AR$ 3,19 | Argentina - U.S. AR$ 3,49 | Argentina - Europe: AR$ 4,59 | Argentina - México-Venezuela-Israel AR$ 3.79 | Incoming Calls AR$ 1.00

Cellular rental: AR$ No Charge | Insurance: AR$ 19.00*

So local calls would be $1,50 pesos or, at today's change rate, 0.19 US Dollars.

Another company is For Rent Argentina, phones are also free but the price per minute doubles.

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