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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With the Verizon Share Everything plan, you can add Canada/Mexico calling for $15 month, which gives you 1000 minutes calling from or to Canada. But that is calling only (plus texts, but no pictures or attachments to them).
Major cities and towns in Canada do have cell phone access, but much of the alcan does not, and there is no access along the Cassier or Stewar/Hdyer.
Verizon does have a data plan, as someone said, something like $25 for 100 meg (better than $2 a meg without it). But we met someone who had gotten it in Dawson Creek and had already found using it was not very good. They called Verizon who agreed it would not work well there and had let them cancel it.
Almost all the private campgrounds we stayed at advertized wifi access, but at best you could do email and simple surfing. It was often slower than dial-up at home.
Many had blocked sites like skype, you-tube, itunes; others asked you not to use it as their internet was satellite.
We often found even connecting hard at times; the campgrounds said the problem was someone attempting to do a large download. Wifi did work later, and I suspect they weren't successful with the download.
We were just thankful anywhere in Canada we found wifi!
We did turn off our cell phone data and location sharing well before the border, and took the batteries out of the mifi.
Major cities and towns in Canada do have cell phone access, but much of the alcan does not, and there is no access along the Cassier or Stewar/Hdyer.
Verizon does have a data plan, as someone said, something like $25 for 100 meg (better than $2 a meg without it). But we met someone who had gotten it in Dawson Creek and had already found using it was not very good. They called Verizon who agreed it would not work well there and had let them cancel it.
Almost all the private campgrounds we stayed at advertized wifi access, but at best you could do email and simple surfing. It was often slower than dial-up at home.
Many had blocked sites like skype, you-tube, itunes; others asked you not to use it as their internet was satellite.
We often found even connecting hard at times; the campgrounds said the problem was someone attempting to do a large download. Wifi did work later, and I suspect they weren't successful with the download.
We were just thankful anywhere in Canada we found wifi!
We did turn off our cell phone data and location sharing well before the border, and took the batteries out of the mifi.
