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12-06-2008, 07:33 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: North GA Mountains
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Phoning while driving thru Canada
What is the cheapest method to call Lower 48 while driving through Canada? I have Verizon cell, but think there's a high roaming charge. Are pre-paid phone cards and using a landline the cheapest? 
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12-06-2008, 07:44 AM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Iraq, Idaho or Alaska
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I used onstar last time I was in Canada. That only works if you are in a GM vehicle that has onstar.
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12-06-2008, 08:24 AM
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Senior Member
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"getting happy!"
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Illinois, for now...
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This is a good question! I hadn't thought about this yet.
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12-06-2008, 10:21 AM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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I use a prepaid AT&T phone card that I bought at Sam's Club. The last time I used my cell phone it ended up costing about 78 cents per minute. At that was even after I paid extra for the "overseas plan". I found plenty of pay phones on my travels through Canada to Alaska. My AT&T phone would have worked on most of the Canadian cell phone systems. Lot's of areas with zero coverage.
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12-06-2008, 10:23 AM
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Attention all planets of the Solar Federation:
Status:
"We have assumed control"
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Bethel, Alaska
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I've noticed over the years that every payphone in Canada have credit card slots on them and prepaid phone card slots as well. Go with Stiffler's idea and get a card. AT&T does work, but it's spendy. I'm sure every other cell phone works as well.
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12-06-2008, 10:35 AM
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I live in NC but my heart is in Alaska
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"seems like Sitka will be my new home..."
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Currently I live in Charlotte, NC
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I have Sprint & calls to or from Canada are 0.60/minute.
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12-06-2008, 03:24 PM
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Conservative is an incurable brain disorder..
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Alaska
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Skype....anywhere there is wifi
1.2 cents-per-minute
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12-06-2008, 06:51 PM
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I live in NC but my heart is in Alaska
Status:
"seems like Sitka will be my new home..."
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Currently I live in Charlotte, NC
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Hard to beat that price Cap'n.
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12-06-2008, 11:16 PM
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Conservative is an incurable brain disorder..
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Alaska
824 posts, read 396,157 times
Reputation: 423
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Skype is a great program...
All forms of wifi are very easy to locate nowdays
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12-06-2008, 11:56 PM
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Livin Life Down A Long Dirt Road
Status:
"Hangin in Naptowne..."
(set 21 days ago)
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: I live in Alaska but my heart is in Sweden
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Had it not been for Skype...I'd never had made that first phone call to Sweden!
I can talk for 7 hours, for 10 bucks, half way around the planet!
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