<p>How are you guys handling the cell phone thing? As of now, my family has Nextel. Are there companies in MTL that are different and preferred? I recently lost my phone and am getting a new one...should I hold off on it or something?</p>
<p>i think Verizon has a North America plan that includes the US and Canada</p>
<p>Thats what i'll get</p>
<p>When I was checking into this, I heard that if a US student is on the Verizon NA plan with his hometown number, a fellow Montreal student would need to pay for an international call in order to reach him...do you know if this is true?And I suppose if he had a Montreal number, his friends in the States not on the NA Plan would also be billed for an international call...</p>
<p>one of my friends has this plan and has told me this:</p>
<p>1) most of her friends dont really care that its an international number
2) the ones that do- they call her, but she doesnt pick up, and then she calls them back. (its not international for her to call them)</p>
<p>the problem also with having a montreal plan is that when the student comes home for a visit, they will be roaming. and if thats true all summer (4 months!), thats really expensive.</p>
<p>Thanks, sounds like a good system re the callbacks. But am surprised most don't care, since I doubt international calls are within allotted minutes? and more expensive...</p>
<p>Heh, I'm more interested in a plan focused on calls in MTL. I'll be making occasional calls home, and calls when I am back in town, but like I'd hope to make a lot of friends in MTL and such. I mean, as far as I'm concerned, going to school there for 8 months means settling and making a life there.</p>
<p>so i was looking up stuff on this, and does anyone have vonage or know about this plan? they have an unlimited us-canada calls plan, and you can get a "virtual number" with a montreal area code that forwards calls to your phone for just a little bit extra, so that people calling you from both montreal and wherever you're from get local call rates. it seems like a pretty good deal but no one i know has vonage so i don't know if it's any good.</p>
<p>Bumping this thread...</p>
<p>I just talked to a friend of mine who has attended McGill for 2 years now and she said that she and all of the other Americans that she knows has Verizon's North America plan. She said you get no roaming and free calls anywhere in north america, and there's good signal up there! I don't think Cingular has any service up there, when I went up and brought my Cingular phone I was roaming on Rogers Wireless.</p>
<p>If I gtt the Verizon plan wouldn't people with Canadian carriers rack up long distance charges when I call them or they call me?</p>
<p>hey i found this website that's helpful, actually the link to it was on the first year essential's page which is infinitely useful, <a href="http://www.studentphones.com%5B/url%5D">www.studentphones.com</a> , canadian cell phone service and weird student deals. i guess there are a couple of providers that everyone has, and if you get the plan where calling other phones with that provider is free it'll be a lot easier. i mean if you have verizon and it works then that's awesome but nobody else will have verizon so calls won't be free, but if you have rogers or fido or whatever then everyone else will too so it'll be free a lot of the time.</p>