Date:         Sat, 15 Dec 2012 05:22:39 -0500
Reply-To:     Harold Teer <teer.vanagon@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Harold Teer <teer.vanagon@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Virginia to Alaska and back--maps, Internet, places to camp,
              and modifications to the van
Comments: To: Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca>
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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

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Harold Teer
1991 Westy
Harrisonburg, VA