Cell Phone Service along Alaska Highway

Mr-MrsPete wrote:
Hey Vebyes some of us still have jobs to do while we are relaxing. Just because you don't doesn't make it wrong for eveyone else. Just saying.

No problem with the really NEED to use the cellphone use. Got my first cellphone in 1989 for my boat tour business. Just me, the boat & the phone. No office. Nobody else. The phone was a very handy tool. Customers wanted answers right away. They did not want to talk to an answering machine that I would not get back to till hours later.

It is the addicted people I am poking fun at. The ones who will not go where there is no service. The people who contantly have them in their hands, looking at the phone every 30 seconds as they walk. The people who can't put the phone away when they are in a restaurant or movie. The ones who think that a moving vehicle is a conference center. The ones who cannot bear to be disconnected from the world, as if the world needs them to be connected. It doesn't.

We have been to Alaska 3 times. We use Walmarts Straight Talk & Tracphone. No service in Canada for either one. We never race through Canada to get to Alaska. Our preference is to use provincial park CGs. No WIFI. We keep in touch using Skype or Email wherever we can find WIFI. That can be the occasional commercial CG or a library. Our itinerary is updated as often as possible so if there is an emergency the police can be given a real good idea of where to find us.

Three to four weeks going through Canada or Alaska without cellphone service...no problem. It is nice being disconnected from the world for a spell.