Canadian Using Wind Phone

[Falcon35]

Wind Mobile is offering a unlimited USA plan for $15.00 on top of your Canadian plan.
Has anyone on here tried it. Check there web site it looks good.

[Falcon35]

I have had a bill at $35:00 ± tax and I'm posting is with my BlackBerry z30.I did have the BlackBerry unlock phone that Wind put there sim card in.

[Mike_Boutet]

moisheh wrote:
I think you will find that the coverage sucks. Who is their carrier? Has anyone actually received a bill so they can see the actual cost? There is no free lunch. If they are roaming on ATT their costs would be very high. If it is Tmobile they have the worst coverage in the USA. Has anyone in the Southwest tried Wind?

Moisheh

Yes I have received two bills both being $60.00 plus tax. That includes full coverage in the states and Ontario. In the spring I will drop the US coverage and then it's $40.00 per month. They don't support Black Berry phones though. I believe they piggy back ATT towers.

[moisheh]

I think you will find that the coverage sucks. Who is their carrier? Has anyone actually received a bill so they can see the actual cost? There is no free lunch. If they are roaming on ATT their costs would be very high. If it is Tmobile they have the worst coverage in the USA. Has anyone in the Southwest tried Wind?

Moisheh

[Falcon35]

joebedford wrote:
I only need USA roaming for 4-5 months per year. Does WIND allow you to suspend or cancel for the other months? Couldn't find that in the FAQ.

Yes you only added it for when you need it according to there representative.
I need to get it turned on as we plan to leave on January 3.
I will know better after we try but we do have an unlocked Black Berry Z30 so can switch if we are not happy.

[almcc]

Just a caution about some of these smaller Canadian guys, I was shopping around to get away from the big guys and checked out one of the smaller players. I have an unlocked Galaxy Note 2 quad band phone (which I thought was good everywhere), it wouldn't work as the some of these smaller players run on different frequencies. The salesperson's recommendation was to sell my phone on E-bay and buy one of theirs (not!).

I did switch to City Phone out of BC, it turned out to be a Rogers company!!

[joebedford]

I only need USA roaming for 4-5 months per year. Does WIND allow you to suspend or cancel for the other months? Couldn't find that in the FAQ.

[Mike_Boutet]

dieharder wrote:

Mike Boutet wrote:
I switched to Wind from Rodgers. I'm paying the same price as with Rodgers but getting wide open unlimited US. I'm a happy camper. 🙂

Rogers for $5/day? That's absolutely insane.

Should look into a US Tracfone.

I'm paying approx $1.50 per day. Unlimited everything in US and Canada.

[dieharder]

Mike Boutet wrote:
I switched to Wind from Rodgers. I'm paying the same price as with Rodgers but getting wide open unlimited US. I'm a happy camper. 🙂

Rogers for $5/day? That's absolutely insane.

Should look into a US Tracfone.

[Me_Again]

We could just turn 9 provinces into states and cell coverage would be universal. You pick the state to give to the tenth province to form the new two province country(West France?)!

Here is a list to work off.
State Number of speakers of Canadian French
Maine 47,066 (Also the highest percent)
New Hampshire 24,697
Vermont 9,543
Massachusetts 65,874
Connecticut 35,565
Rhode Island 11,477

[Falcon35]

Mike Boutet wrote:
Used all the way down to Florida. No problems. Made long distance calls home and no extra charge. I even tethered my phone to iPad for wifi without extra charge.

That's great I hope mine will work as well in South Texas.
Thanks for getting back so quickly.
It looks like it may be the answer for cell in US for Canadians.

[Mike_Boutet]

Used all the way down to Florida. No problems. Made long distance calls home and no extra charge. I even tethered my phone to iPad for wifi without extra charge.

[Falcon35]

Mike Boutet wrote:
I switched to Wind from Rodgers. I'm paying the same price as with Rodgers but getting wide open unlimited US. I'm a happy camper. 🙂

What part of the USA have you used it?
I have just switched from Solo Mobile (owned by bell) to Wind.
I had good coverage in the USA but at $1.45 a min. I did not like to use it.
I have bought an unlocked phone so if it is not satisfactory I will just get an other sim card. We have made our calls home to Canada on Skype.

[Mike_Boutet]

I switched to Wind from Rodgers. I'm paying the same price as with Rodgers but getting wide open unlimited US. I'm a happy camper. 🙂

[Bumpyroad]

see a thread
> Best Option for Internet Access Traveling Cross Country?
talk about $8.00??????????
bumpy