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Re: Best place to rent a mobile phone in Vancouver, B.C (My Verizon
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| techman41973@yahoo.com wrote:
> I have Verizon Wireless mobile phone service in the United States.
> I will be spending a week in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Verizon charges .
> 69 cents a minute for all calls while roaming in Canada and another 49
> cents a minute for calls to a US #.
> This is going to quickly add up for me.
> Can anyone recommend a place in Vancouver or mail order rental service
> that offers weekly mobile phone rentals at practical rates? It doesn't
> pay for me to pay more than $30 for basic rental fees for the week
> (usage not included).
> Thanks
The prepaid GSM cards and phone rentals are no great deal for Canada. I
was in Canada for a week earlier this year. I just used my Verizon phone
very sparingly. If I got an incoming call from a number I recognized,
and I was near a landline, I didn't answer it, I called them back using
OneSuite, which is like 3¢ a minute. I made no calls from the phone for
that week, and I think I had only two minutes of charges for received calls.
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| techman41973@yahoo.com wrote:
> How much do Canadian pay phones charge to call a toll free #, to
> connect to onesuite?
> Thanks
U.S. 55¢. I always called from the hotel phone, or other free non-pay phone.
Note that OneSuite now has some local access numbers in Canada as well,
with the rate being 2.5¢ per minute, versus 3.5¢ per minute using the
toll free number.
Also note that you can make multiple One-Suite calls using that single
55¢ pay phone charge. I forget, but you press either # or * to make
another call, rather than hanging up and redialing the access number.
55¢ is a pain, but that's less than one minute of Verizon roaming.
Lots of free WiFi in Canada too. At one hotel I used my Voicestick
account on my laptop to make a call back to the U.S..
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| Mark Brader 2007-05-21, 10:33 pm |
| > > How much do Canadian pay phones charge to call a toll free #, to
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> U.S. 55¢.
Canada does not have a national phone company, and there are private
pay phones too, so the answer may vary. However, I can say that I have
never been charged for calling a toll-free number from a pay phone in
Canada. Not that I do it all that often.
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Mark Brader, Toronto | "True excitement lies in doing
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| Mark Brader wrote:
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> Canada does not have a national phone company, and there are private
> pay phones too, so the answer may vary. However, I can say that I have
> never been charged for calling a toll-free number from a pay phone in
> Canada. Not that I do it all that often.
It's OneSuite that deducts the 55¢ from your account when you call their
toll free number from a pay phone. The pay phone owner charges the owner
of the toll free number a fee for each call, because the owner isn't
getting any money otherwise from toll tree calls.
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