<p>Does anyone know a good cell phone plan to have for living in Montreal? Should I buy a plan in Montreal or try to work through my existing plan in NYC(Cingular)?</p>
<p>Obviously, I'm looking for the cheapest, most flexible plan. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>you cant get cingular in canada as far as i know.. if you did it would all be roaming.. thats the only way it works in canada.. given in canada your only choices are fido, telus, bell and rogers... i would go with rogers.. they have a megatime plan for 25$/month with 100 anytime minutes, 1000 even/weekend minutes, 100 long distance minutes (CANADIAN), free unlimited local incoming calls.. and currently with any megatime plan you get free rogers to rogers local calling.. and if you sign up now you get 3 months unlimited text, calling etc..</p>
<p>however, i ended up getting the family plan which for 60$/month.. we get two phones... 300 minutes, unlimited evenings and weekends.. +5$ for early evenings and weekends.. +9$ for call display/voicemail/5$ text message bundle.. and we get 2500 local minutes between the phones and 500 long distance minutes between the two phones on the same plan.. it comes to about 100$ with taxes and system access fee and so its about 50$ a month.. which is about good if youwant to get any other plan with the same options..</p>
<p>its also possible to get the rogers retention plan which is really nice but that requires you to be with rogers for minumum 6months-year</p>
<p>You can get an international (US & Canada) plan through Cingular, but I think that can be pretty expensive.</p>
<p>I'm keeping my existing cell number from MA with a Verizon US & Canada plan so there's no roaming or anything, but it will be long distance for anyone in Montreal to call me.</p>
<p>cheapest, most flexible would be to use a GSM network in canada such as fido and rogers with either a short 1-year contract or no contract at all (you might not wanna sign stuff like 3 year contracts if you're thinking of ever going to study abroad and stuff like that...it's not worth the cheap phone).</p>
<p>i would have to personally recommend fido because you use the rogers network (since rogers bought fido) but fido's plans give you way more and a lot of students use fido so that fido-to-fido calling can cover a lot of your minutes. also i think they have a 6 months unlimited thing for new sign-ons?</p>
<p>I'm currently on telus, do they have that in montreal? I was thinking of signing a contract here and changing phone numbers come Montreal time</p>
<p>why would you only get a plan that is long distance for anyone to call you in montreal? unless your getting a landline too</p>
<p>its not long distance if I change the number when I get there. So its local.</p>