On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote: Both 7-11 and Petrocanada offer a prepaid sim card service for unlocked phone. Card about 20 bucks, buy time as you need it, no contract. Pretty well same coverage as the big carriers. I'm using it on a Sonim XP3 (grrr rugged!) and it is working out fine.
Alistair, Good information to know. It has been too long since I went through the research to figure out how to obtain and activate a sim card for the "new ipad" in Canada so I do not remember all of the particulars. But the one I was trying to obtain and activate from Rogers was a prepaid. But even then, they would not activate for me since I had no Canadian address. In retrospect, not getting one was really no big deal since I would not have had access in 99% of the places we traveled. But it was annoying that having made three phone calls before the trip that I was given bum information. We were able to find WiFi in most libraries (the one I used outside the closed library in Eagle, AK was extremely fast) and many coffee shops. Frankly, not having 3g for the iPad was probably a good thing since I could concentrate on the trip and couldn't waste time searching on the internet. Harold __________ Harold Teer 1991 Westy Harrisonburg, VA |
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