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L.S. In september I will be travelling in eastern Canada (Quebec, Ontario, NB and NScotia) and the US (New England). I will arrive in Montreal at Laval airport. I have got a simlock free cell phone, triple band (SE T200). My question is: where can I buy a sim card and a prepaid phone card and at what price, a sim card that I can use in Canada and the US for calling to Canada and the US for a period of one/two months. I will not use the cell phone for long calls. Long calls I will make with a phone card from a pay phone. (It would be nice if I could send SMS's to the Neterlands, but that' not necessary). In Holland I bought a starter set from T-mobile, sim card (15 euro) and prepaid card (10 euro) for my cell phone. Kind regards, Thijs Notenboom, lieneke.thijs@hetnet.nl |
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Unfortunately you will have to buy another SIM card in the US, because you can't roam in the US on Rogers prepaid. You also can't buy a prepaid SIM from any of the providers here in the US that will let you roam to Canada. Cingular have international dialling to the Netherlands for US$0.39 per minute plus your usual airtime charge (anywhere from US$0.10 to US$0.39 per minute). T-Mobile also have prepaid but it's not advertised. AT&T have their "Go Phones" which you can buy for US$50 in any 7-Eleven store or AT&T Wireless store. Coverage is not good on AT&T in much of New England, and in fact GSM coverage in general may be spotty. Oh, and any provider will allow you to send SMS, usually for CDN$0.15 or US$0.10 per message sent. Just send it to the mobile number in the Netherlands in international format -- for example, (06) 12341234 would be +31612341234.
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In, Canada, just make sure that you go to the official Rogers AT&T wireless store or else many dealers (eg. Radioshack, Futureshop, etc) will charge you extra for "activation fee" or some other fee so you end up paying more than $25 for the SIM. And then get the prepaid airtime card at the local 7-Eleven, Futureshop, London ____s, Radioshack, Macs convenience stores, etc.
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