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02-24-2021 09:12 AM
02-24-2021 09:13 AM
02-24-2021 10:15 AM
I'd call Tracfone and ask but I really don't think you can use your phone in Canada. I couldn't use mine when I was there.
02-25-2021 05:52 AM - edited 02-25-2021 05:53 AM
@HP in NY , I am Canadian, when I travel in the US, I have to use a US SIM card and data plan. I get a separate US phone number with my roam package. This is intended for people travelling. You may want to investigate a new package if Canada is your permanent home.
Drop by a Staples store or any electronics store (Best Buy for example) and ask. You can buy a new SIM card at Staples and probably at any electronics store. You could also contact Tracfone. HTH.
This is what I got when I googled...
“Impossible,” you say. “TracFone does not offer international roaming, period.” Au contraire; It is actually possible!
If, that is, you have an unlocked GSM phone. In that case, there’s nothing stopping you from installing a SIM card from a Canadian carrier in it. Many phones come with multiple SIM slots to facilitate just such use by international travelers. The catch is that calls won’t automatically follow you; you’ll get a separate Canadian phone number that people will have to use to contact you while in Canada.
A further wrinkle is that if you try and order a SIM card from a Canadian carrier online, you will discover that they absolutely refuse to ship such things to non-Canadian addresses. I did some research and found out that even though Public Wireless (the discount brand of Telus, one of the largest Canadian cell networks) refuses to ship their SIM cards outside of Canada, once you get possession of one of their SIM cards and install it in a phone, they will happily let you register it to a US address and associate it with a US credit card. I can now confirm that this is indeed the case. (And you can easily buy a Public Wireless SIM over-the-counter on your next visit to Canada.)
Why do this? I found that TracFone’s prices, despite their service limitations, are are so much cheaper than any plan that offers international roaming, that it costs me less money by far to have separate discount plans in both the USA and Canada than it would to have a high-end plan that allows international roaming.
02-26-2021 01:49 AM
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