Cell phone charges while in Canada
Hi, This is my first post. We are interested in getting a Class B van in a year or so. We have reserved a van of this type in Canada for a week in September. We're planning to stay in Canada for...
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We are in Canada for two months with an AT&T iphone, Verizon iphone and a Verizon ipad.
As mentioned, Verizon will no longer add Canada for $20 a month unless you have the share everything plan, AT&T has a North America plan, $20 more and we get 1000 minutes a month. All that is for voice.
the biggest issue is DATA. NEITHER company's data plan includes Canada, so your data plan is useless. For $30 you can buy 120 megabites, not gigabytes, of data. Make SURE you shut off your data ROAMING before you could possibly pick up Canadian towers. If you shut off all data, you will not be able to recieve text messages in Canada. If you shut off roaming but keep the data on, you will get texts but they will cost you. All this could change by next year anyway, but thats where it stands now. I made multiple calls to Verizon and AT&T to make sure we didn't get one of those $2000 bills.
As mentioned, Verizon will no longer add Canada for $20 a month unless you have the share everything plan, AT&T has a North America plan, $20 more and we get 1000 minutes a month. All that is for voice.
the biggest issue is DATA. NEITHER company's data plan includes Canada, so your data plan is useless. For $30 you can buy 120 megabites, not gigabytes, of data. Make SURE you shut off your data ROAMING before you could possibly pick up Canadian towers. If you shut off all data, you will not be able to recieve text messages in Canada. If you shut off roaming but keep the data on, you will get texts but they will cost you. All this could change by next year anyway, but thats where it stands now. I made multiple calls to Verizon and AT&T to make sure we didn't get one of those $2000 bills.
