This may help for Canada. http://www.cellphones.ca/cell-plans/908/
I have one cell phone on an emergency plan, and one for Liz, a Rogers pay as you go phone. Buy a card and just add the minutes. The cost of the phone is usually around $100, or at least it was. Dave On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:21 AM, gldnbearz<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Yes, you can purchase a pre-paid GSM phone at Walmart or Target > stores. Look for carriers in the USA such as AT&T or T-mobile who > both use SIM cards. The Verizon carrier also sells pre-paid phones, > but to my knowledge, don't use SIM cards. > > In Canada, one of the major GSM carriers is Rogers. My AT&T phone > changes over to the Rogers network when I cross the border, but I > incur international charges if I use the phone. I have never been in > Canada long enough to try the pre-paid SIM card option. > > Check the details with the USA carriers if they provide nationwide > (Hawaii & New York coverage) - regular monthly plan holders usually > get coverage like this. It has been some years since I bought one of > these for my mom and the details are foggy. > > HTH. > -Pat > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Paul Ewins<[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> my girlfriend and I are heading off at the end of the month on a six >> week trip to Hawaii, New York, Montreal and the south-east of Canada. Rather >> than use global roaming and risk large charges from our local (Australian) >> carrier what we have done in the past is buy a cheap phone or a SIM card >> when we get to our destination and use a pre-paid account. >> >> It looks like my antique Nokia is incompatible with US frequencies anyway, >> so the plan is to pop into Walmart and get a cheap pre-paid phone there. Is >> it safe to assume that any carrier with coverage in Hawaii will have >> coverage in New York? Once we get to Montreal I assume that we will have >> to get a new SIM card, and possibly a new phone if the Walmart one is locked >> to the carrier. Or is their a carrier that makes swapping from the US to >> Canada easy? >> >> If you have any recommendations or a better plan I'd love to hear it. >> >> Paul Ewins >> Melbourne, Australia > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
