Piranha Mobile Sim Card

[Sophia]

For Canada I don't think you can do much better than Piranha. In fact somebody in my family uses it now as their main cell phone. Reason is the top up requirement (none) compared to the $100 top up per year of most Canadian cell providers.

Calls are very reasonably priced, $0.22 per minute Canada wide (again, most Canadian prepaid providers easily ask twice that).
Text $0.15 (Canadian providers: $0.50 per text)
Data is $0.37 per MB. If you don't want a data add-on with a fixed amount, the only prepaid provider Telus offers ppu data of $2.00 per MB. Granted, that is not in 100kb increments like Piranha.

I can't fault Piranha in any way though and of all the prepaid international SIMs I tried, it's the only one I kept. For the 2 countries I frequent regularly (USA and NL), I bought a local SIM (T-Mobile and Simyo, respectively) and in Canada I use Koodo prepaid.

But for extremely light users such as said relative, Piranha is actually a good local alternative here!

[Bossman]

I hope she has a backup. Piranha may be all good for now. However, from experience, a lot of these companies come and go. As I posted in another thread, a year ago when I was Lagos, Nigeria, Piranha was useless. If it finally connects to the network, it shows emergency calls only. Thank God for my Ekit sim. I still have Piranha, and will give it another shot when I am back in Nigeria next month. At least to try to use up my credit.

If Piranha works for you, good then. However, always have a backup plan.

Originally Posted by Sophia

In fact somebody in my family uses it now as their main cell phone.

[Sophia]

Oh I agree with you Bossman. NEVER put more than the minimum top up amount on any of those cards, believe me I learned that the hard way (find my Celltrek / Nexus One drama thread right here in these forums)