Comment from Tom and Barbara Greenspon
We are in Canada right now and have been for the last five weeks. We have done this trip (from mid Canada to the Maritimes) for the last 4 years, and AT&T has been a disaster. It was impossible to...
View ArticleComment from Daniel J Luke
No mention of t-mobile’s unlimited talk/text/data in US/Canada/Mexico plans?
View ArticleComment from DJ
I signed on to TMobile this year largely for this reason. We all know their coverage isn't the equal of Verizon or even AT&T, but because they know it too, they bend over backwards on the "little"...
View ArticleComment from David Redfearn
I just switched from Verizon to T-Mobile to get the Canadian coverage included (we have a vacation in Canada coming up). I purchased the international roaming service from Verizon last year for an...
View ArticleComment from Bruce Bowden
You don't need a third party maps app. Open maps in the morning while you are on Wi-Fi, and plot your planned route for the day, zooming in on those areas where you want details. As long as you don't...
View ArticleComment from Andre Kohl
I switched to WorldSIM (www.worldsim.com) as you can use it practically anywhere in the world for cheap calls, text and data and you get free incoming calls in most countries. Its saved me a lot of...
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
For most people, I don't think switching carriers makes sense for just a couple of weekend trips, which is the point of this article. If you're going longer, or splitting time between the US and...
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
Thanks for the note - I was rather put out that the data used didn't appear to match with any usage, but I couldn't prove it (and didn't need to, since they credited me anyway). It's a very black box...
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
Good tip - that wouldn't necessarily have worked for us, since we were sometimes changing plans during the day, and since we were walking and biking a lot, we didn't know exactly what we'd encounter as...
View ArticleComment from John May
For my family's 3-week trip to Canada last month, I researched options for phone plans until my head spun. On the first day of our trip, I went to cell store at a mall in Montreal to sign up for a...
View ArticleComment from greg9
If you're using your phone for tethering your Mac laptop, I would highly recommend https://www.tripmode.ch. It lets you easily turn on and off those Apps that you want to be able to consume data - so...
View ArticleComment from Larry Stone
At least you got data to work in Canada. On a recent trip to Victoria, I never could get data to work. Every time I turned on data roaming, the iPhone showed a data connection for a few seconds, then...
View ArticleComment from Steve
I was in Victoria with an AT&T iPhone 5S and the $30 AT&T Passport plan (or whatever it is called). Whenever I needed to sip a bit of cellular data I would turn on cellular data roaming and...
View ArticleComment from Innes Kennard
Hi AdamInteresting article as we are about to spend two weeks in Canada (and the US) so thanks. However just to show that the playing field is even less level - Spark our NZ carrier charges $4.50 per...
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
Yes, I reviewed TripMode just last week. http://tidbits.com/article/15808
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
Ouch! That's really high. For those kind of rates, I'd really look into unlocking and getting a local SIM.
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
Interesting! The difference between bytes and chunks is one I've not seen before, but that would definitely result in discrepancies.Of course, the other possibility is that iOS is indeed accurate, and...
View ArticleComment from Simon
I was absolutely willing to believe my carrier was was cheating until I noticed iOS' roaming figures.Once I saw roaming data show up (both on the bill and in iOS cellular statistics) even when roaming...
View ArticleComment from Simon
I agree with you that iOS's Cellular Statistics is convenient and very practical. Especially how it breaks out different types of data usage. But unfortunately, it's unreliable.My carrier lists every...
View ArticleComment from John May
A few years ago on a trip to Victoria, we had no Canadian cell service or wifi. But if I stood on a point of land at the southern end of the island, I could see Port Anageles, WA, across the sound, and...
View ArticleComment from Valerie Silver
You don't need to unlock your iPhone to use a foreign SIM, and you may want to keep your US SIM in your iPhone anyway, for texting and using wifi. Just get a simple/cheap unlocked phone, tri-or...
View ArticleComment from vicious
This is only tangentially related, but I often get a warning message from T-Mobile telling me that I am now internationally roaming when I am in west San Diego, like at Point Loma, or similar spots...
View ArticleComment from Rich
For GPS maps and routing, offline using previously downloaded maps, the app "maps.me" works very nicely for me.
View ArticleComment from G Perry
I've never posted here before but I'm a long time reader of Tidbits. Reading over this topic, I thought to myself, "This situation is so absurd, it's simply beyond mental!"I'm wondering if the rumor...
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
Just a note that Verizon has changed their international plans now, so you can pay per day to keep your plan. It's still not cheap, but it's better than...
View ArticleComment from Tom and Barbara Greenspon
About to switch to T-Mobile, partly because we're in Canada about 6 weeks each year. T-Mobile seems to have coverage wherever we travel. Any big negatives I might be missing? Will be happy to leave...
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
T-Mobile's international approach is very good - the only downside is the coverage map. Josh and I wrote about them more generally in:http://tidbits.com/article/15914
View ArticleComment from Tom and Barbara Greenspon
Thank you! That's the very article that helped us decide to do this.
View ArticleComment from david cuddy
There's a new supplier of pre-paid SIMs for visitors to Canada: Roam Mobility.https://roammobility.ca/plansThey've been in business for a few years selling roaming SIMs to Canadians who travel in the...
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