Comments on: Getting smart about cell phone plans in Canada

By: Able

Able — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:00:29 +0000

BTW the Verizon Canada plan I think charges $69-79 for 900 day time minutes + 1000 W&Nights + 1000 V2V

By: Able

Able — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:58:09 +0000

Toni: US Canada plans

I live in Canada most of the time but am frequently across the border and make a LOT of calls while roaming across borders. I have signed up for the Verizon Canada Plan. It is reasonable and no long distance and roaming charges anywhere in US/Canada. It does have unlimited Ver-Ver calling but only in the US. In Canada V2V is counted as part of your minutes.
Only trouble is that there is no text messaging plan while in Canada.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:45:51 +0000

Vito asks, “Do you really need 200MB of data on your blackberry?

Then he states, “Mind you, I never download attachments.”

You have a device to read e-mail, but you can’t read attachments…

And you don’t see a problem with this?

My Gosh!

By: Toni

Toni — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:07:12 +0000

I’m also trying to find a plan that will allow me to make calls equally when I am in Canada and the US without roaming when I am in either place, because I literally will spend equal amounts of time in both places week to week for the foreseeable future starting later this year. At this time there appears to be no American plan to cover both, but Bell and Telus both have north america plans and I may go with one of them. An intriguing notion is using skype on a phone with an unlimited data plan and just paying their 25 pounds (british) per year for their unlimited us-canada calling plan, though I know of no one personally who does this and haven’t done much looking into it to see if it would make sense financially. Also I don’t know how the call quality might be.

By: Sheila

Sheila — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:07:28 +0000

My son is in BC and we need a cell phone plan with free incoming from the states. It is mind boggling how different cell plans are in the us and canada. I am going nuts trying to find an average priced plan that has the features he needs. He must have free incoming and would like to be able to received e-mail and text, but we would settle for the free incoming from the east coast of the us.

HELP!

By: Vito

Vito — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:50:32 +0000

Don’t get me started on Canadian mobile phone rates…

I use my BlackBerry on Rogers as well - do you really need 200MB of data on your blackberry? I e-mail all day with mine and haven’t cracked 15MB. Mind you, I never download attachments.

Also, I have an Unlimited Incoming calls plan - so all calls I recieve are free.