whats the best payg sim for use in canada

hillendale

I have trip planned to canada and need a prepaid sim card to use whilst over on canada ( alberta) can anybody advise on the best option for me , i have seen the following on ebay
Fido / At&t / t-mobile but am not sure which is the best for calling back to the uk from canada .
many thanks in advance for any help

gbguyuk

Hi,

I was in Canada a couple of years ago and purchased a Rogers Wireless sim when I arrived, they looked the cheapest for calling to the UK when I looked at the various providers. I had no problem with signal even when I was in the back of beyond. I was with Vodafone at the time and just inserted the SIM into my p990i and it worked first time. I don't know if it might be worth checking to see if you would need your phone unlocked for it to work?

hillendale

gbguyuk wrote: »

Hi,

I was in Canada a couple of years ago and purchased a Rogers Wireless sim when I arrived, they looked the cheapest for calling to the UK when I looked at the various providers. I had no problem with signal even when I was in the back of beyond. I was with Vodafone at the time and just inserted the SIM into my p990i and it worked first time. I don't know if it might be worth checking to see if you would need your phone unlocked for it to work?

Cheers for the advice , i have a nokia 6300 which is locked to o2 but have a ' turbo sim' that i can use which unlocks it when i use another network sim so i'm hoping this will do the trick . So i'll give the Rogers sim a try .
regards

redux

AT&T and T-mobile are US networks and would incur int'l roaming charges, so go for either Fido or Rogers.

You could get cheaper than their tariffs to the UK by using a calling card or similar arrangement, like perhaps DialNow.

For calls to you (note you pay for incoming calls), brief people on using cheap calls providers, or use a VoIP firm to set up forwarding to the Canadian SIM

hillendale

redux wrote: »

AT&T and T-mobile are US networks and would incur int'l roaming charges, so go for either Fido or Rogers.

You could get cheaper than their tariffs to the UK by using a calling card or similar arrangement, like perhaps DialNow.

For calls to you (note you pay for incoming calls), brief people on using cheap calls providers, or use a VoIP firm to set up forwarding to the Canadian SIM

Thanks for the advice , would it be possible for you to tell how i could set up a voip forwarding option to divert calls incoming from the uk i didn't realise this was possible . I currently have an o2 mobile in the UK and wanted to ask if it would be somehow possible for people to call this number & be diverted via a voip service to my canadian mobile number would it be costly to do this .
Many thanks for any further advice/help