Canada: US person to Canada for a Plan (Monthly vs Pre paid) Fido?or others? Costly!

PhotoJim · 21-08-2007, 16:15

1. If you have a Vancouver number, and you *receive* a call in Calgary, you pay toll. You will only pay long distance on outgoing calls if you call a long distance number (relative to Calgary). Calling Calgary, or toll-free numbers, will be local since you are in Calgary at the time.

2. You can change numbers. I'm sure there is a charge. I don't know what the charge is.

3. Rogers and Fido use the same network, so reception is identical.

4. I don't know.

5. I don't know.

6. There is only one GSM network in Canada, and it is Rogers' network. Any provider using GSM in Canada is using that network. All the other networks are CDMA, although only Rogers' covers every province. (The CDMA providers roam on each other to provide full national coverage.)

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PhotoJim (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 389 Join Date: 10 Dec 2006 Location: Regina, SK, CA Country:	21-08-2007, 16:15 1. If you have a Vancouver number, and you receive a call in Calgary, you pay toll. You will only pay long distance on outgoing calls if you call a long distance number (relative to Calgary). Calling Calgary, or toll-free numbers, will be local since you are in Calgary at the time. 2. You can change numbers. I'm sure there is a charge. I don't know what the charge is. 3. Rogers and Fido use the same network, so reception is identical. 4. I don't know. 5. I don't know. 6. There is only one GSM network in Canada, and it is Rogers' network. Any provider using GSM in Canada is using that network. All the other networks are CDMA, although only Rogers' covers every province. (The CDMA providers roam on each other to provide full national coverage.) CA: SaskTel, Wind postpaid; Rogers, Bell postpaid iPad flex plans; US: T-Mobile postpaid data, prepaid voice; PureTalk (AT&T MVNO) prepaid voice/data; AT&T prepaid iPad plan Hardware: Too much but notably iPhone 5, iPad Mini Retina LTE, Moto G LTE (N.A. version), iPhone 4. All unlocked. Last edited by PhotoJim; 21-08-2007 at 16:16.. Reason: Fixing my bad grammar :)