Best place to rent a mobile phone in Vancouver, B.C (My Verizon rates are too steep)

I have Verizon Wireless mobile phone service in the United States.
I will be spending a week in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Verizon charges .
69 cents a minute for all calls while roaming in Canada and another 49
cents a minute for calls to a US #.
This is going to quickly add up for me.
Can anyone recommend a place in Vancouver or mail order rental service
that offers weekly mobile phone rentals at practical rates? It doesn't
pay for me to pay more than $30 for basic rental fees for the week
(usage not included).
Thanks

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<[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I have Verizon Wireless mobile phone service in the United States.
> I will be spending a week in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Verizon charges .
> 69 cents a minute for all calls while roaming in Canada and another 49
> cents a minute for calls to a US #.
> This is going to quickly add up for me.
> Can anyone recommend a place in Vancouver or mail order rental service
> that offers weekly mobile phone rentals at practical rates? It doesn't
> pay for me to pay more than $30 for basic rental fees for the week
> (usage not included).
> Thanks
>

Buy a phone card. About 3 cents a minute.

Try these people

http://www.cellularabroad.com/canadaRcell.php




"Calif Bill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>I have Verizon Wireless mobile phone service in the United States.
>> I will be spending a week in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Verizon charges .
>> 69 cents a minute for all calls while roaming in Canada and another 49
>> cents a minute for calls to a US #.
>> This is going to quickly add up for me.
>> Can anyone recommend a place in Vancouver or mail order rental service
>> that offers weekly mobile phone rentals at practical rates? It doesn't
>> pay for me to pay more than $30 for basic rental fees for the week
>> (usage not included).
>> Thanks
>>
>
> Buy a phone card. About 3 cents a minute.
>

Calif Bill wrote:
> <[email protected]> wrote...
>> I have Verizon Wireless mobile phone service in the United States.
>> I will be spending a week in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Verizon charges .
>> 69 cents a minute for all calls while roaming in Canada and another 49
>> cents a minute for calls to a US #.
>
> Buy a phone card. About 3 cents a minute.

So he uses the 69-cent-per-minute rate to call the phone-card number to
get the 3-cent-per-minute rate? What incoming number does he give his
business associates, friends and family, to get him at the 3-cent-per-minute
rate? Or are you saying he should give up mobile phone use while in Canada,
which doesn't answer his question at all?

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On May 19, 8:21 pm, [email protected] wrote:
> I have Verizon Wireless mobile phone service in the United States.
> I will be spending a week in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Verizon charges .
> 69 cents a minute for all calls while roaming in Canada and another 49
> cents a minute for calls to a US #.
> This is going to quickly add up for me.
> Can anyone recommend a place in Vancouver or mail order rental service
> that offers weekly mobile phone rentals at practical rates? It doesn't
> pay for me to pay more than $30 for basic rental fees for the week
> (usage not included).
> Thanks


How about getting a prepaid sim card from Rogers?

"clifto" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Calif Bill wrote:
>> <[email protected]> wrote...
>>> I have Verizon Wireless mobile phone service in the United States.
>>> I will be spending a week in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Verizon charges .
>>> 69 cents a minute for all calls while roaming in Canada and another 49
>>> cents a minute for calls to a US #.
>>
>> Buy a phone card. About 3 cents a minute.
>
> So he uses the 69-cent-per-minute rate to call the phone-card number to
> get the 3-cent-per-minute rate? What incoming number does he give his
> business associates, friends and family, to get him at the
> 3-cent-per-minute
> rate? Or are you saying he should give up mobile phone use while in
> Canada,
> which doesn't answer his question at all?
>
> --
> It's funny how quickly liberal atheists can develop a belief in hell
> when someone they hate dies.

Use a public phone with the phone card. How much do you think the Canada
cell phone will cost him for international calls. May be even more than
than the 69 cents his US phone will charge him. Last summer we took 7 weeks
and drove to Alaska. Used Email and the cell phone for contact with the US
and kids. Cell phones are worthless after you get maybe 1/3 the way through
BC. Very little cell coverage. And used a phone card for phoning my mom
while on the trip in Canada. She being 92, likes to hear from us. If you
use the phone card to call back someone, you are only going to cost the 69
cents for the minute to get their number. And if you require lots of
minutes for business, it is tax deductible. Just make it a cost of
business.

[email protected] wrote:
> I have Verizon Wireless mobile phone service in the United States.
> I will be spending a week in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Verizon charges .
> 69 cents a minute for all calls while roaming in Canada and another 49
> cents a minute for calls to a US #.
> This is going to quickly add up for me.
> Can anyone recommend a place in Vancouver or mail order rental service
> that offers weekly mobile phone rentals at practical rates? It doesn't
> pay for me to pay more than $30 for basic rental fees for the week
> (usage not included).
> Thanks

The prepaid GSM cards and phone rentals are no great deal for Canada. I
was in Canada for a week earlier this year. I just used my Verizon phone
very sparingly. If I got an incoming call from a number I recognized,
and I was near a landline, I didn't answer it, I called them back using
OneSuite, which is like 3¢ a minute. I made no calls from the phone for
that week, and I think I had only two minutes of charges for received calls.

How much do Canadian pay phones charge to call a toll free #, to
connect to onesuite?
Thanks


>
> The prepaid GSM cards and phone rentals are no great deal for Canada. I
> was in Canada for a week earlier this year. I just used my Verizon phone
> very sparingly. If I got an incoming call from a number I recognized,
> and I was near a landline, I didn't answer it, I called them back using
> OneSuite, which is like 3¢ a minute. I made no calls from the phone for
> that week, and I think I had only two minutes of charges for received calls.

[email protected] wrote:
> How much do Canadian pay phones charge to call a toll free #, to
> connect to onesuite?
> Thanks

U.S. 55¢. I always called from the hotel phone, or other free non-pay phone.

Note that OneSuite now has some local access numbers in Canada as well,
with the rate being 2.5¢ per minute, versus 3.5¢ per minute using the
toll free number.

Also note that you can make multiple One-Suite calls using that single
55¢ pay phone charge. I forget, but you press either # or * to make
another call, rather than hanging up and redialing the access number.

55¢ is a pain, but that's less than one minute of Verizon roaming.

Lots of free WiFi in Canada too. At one hotel I used my Voicestick
account on my laptop to make a call back to the U.S..

Mark Brader wrote:
>>> How much do Canadian pay phones charge to call a toll free #, to
>>> connect to onesuite?
>
>> U.S. 55¢.
>
> Canada does not have a national phone company, and there are private
> pay phones too, so the answer may vary. However, I can say that I have
> never been charged for calling a toll-free number from a pay phone in
> Canada. Not that I do it all that often.

It's OneSuite that deducts the 55¢ from your account when you call their
toll free number from a pay phone. The pay phone owner charges the owner
of the toll free number a fee for each call, because the owner isn't
getting any money otherwise from toll tree calls.

> Try these people


www.yak.com