Canadian SIM card?

delorean_2

Thanks for that link, very useful!

I'm tempted to go for the Go-Sim, it seems the best of a bad bunch.

I fail to understand why the user has to pay for incoming calls, that's absolutely ridiculous!

Even with a Canadian sim I would have to pay for any incoming calls? What a rip off!

Brodel

delorean wrote:

Thanks for that link, very useful!

I'm tempted to go for the Go-Sim, it seems the best of a bad bunch.

I fail to understand why the user has to pay for incoming calls, that's absolutely ridiculous!

Even with a Canadian sim I would have to pay for any incoming calls? What a rip off!

No problem, I'd check with people on that board first but if the Go-Sim seems best then go with that.

I agree though, the N.American PAYG market is terrible. I was just speaking to someone earlier today on Virgin in the US who is getting charged 5cents each time they get a text from Virgin, and they got 27 messages in one weekend despite texting to cancel text alerts and recieving a confirmation text in return! :wall:

redux

Why? The Go-sim product is reselling a Canadian SIM anyway.

I'd get a Fido SIM with local calls at 7 pence a minute incoming and outgoing (on $15 and $30 top-ups)

http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/canada.html

delorean_2

I'm absolutely gobsmacked that you have to pay to take a call. That is disgraceful!

If the Fido sim is the best then I guess i'd be better off getting that. Where can you get those from?

withabix

That's just how it works in Canada.

Our ex-pat relatives in Canada are horrified at how much we pay for PAYG mobile calls and most other things generally.

redux

There isn't really a need to rehearse the whole argument of caller pays vs receiver pays. It is fact that mobile phones are more expensive, and the American networks and others like China Hong Kong and Singapore have chosen to load this on the recipient, which in some ways is fairer to the person making the call, as why should we in Europe pay extra to call that selfish friend who has chosen to have only a mobile?

I'd assume it's on shops, but also online
http://www.fido.ca/shopfido/asp/index.asp?d=2&lang=en

So is Rogers, but I don't think they sell a SIM only deal
http://www.shoprogers.com/store/wireless/services/payasyougo/overview.asp?shopperID=R8DL1W3VLW2H9M33X8N77024402N9859

Note that the discussion on that other forum mentions Bell Telus and Virgin. These are CDMA networks, a different digital standard, so you'd have to buy a phone to go on these. I don't know anything about their call charges, but ther websites should be easy enough to find.

Also on that forum, someone mentions a couple of times that Fido has less coverage than Rogers. This is no longer true, as Rogers bought the Microcell network so the two are now merged for coverage.