topic Re: Moving to the US in Get Support

Moving to the US

navins94 — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 08:13:54 GMT

Does anyone know if it's possible to have a roaming plan on the US with a deactivated Canadian account? As in, if I purchase and start a US roaming plan before my plan expires in Canada, will I still have service in the US until the roaming plan expires?

Re: Moving to the US

navins94 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 23:33:35 GMT

@CS_Agent

Re: Moving to the US

stonechucker — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 23:58:41 GMT

I would say in order to have roaming available, you would need an active base plan, including voice or texting.

Re: Moving to the US

ShawnC13 — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:10:37 GMT

@navins94, if you let your plan expire your addons will not be active either. Your phone needs to be active and have a base plan attached to it for the addon to work

Re: Moving to the US

mimmo — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:19:41 GMT

You could get a fongo number and port your number to fongo. It costs 25$.

Re: Moving to the US

Mana — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:22:11 GMT

@navins94 if you are moving to US, why not get a local sim or plan when you get there.

If if you want to keep your current number then please consider @mimmo suggestion.

Re: Moving to the US

navins94 — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:29:30 GMT

Do you think it would count if my base plan has no talk, no text, and no data? It's still $10 for that plan. If so I could just do that and get the roaming plan I need.

Re: Moving to the US

mimmo — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:33:04 GMT

Plans needs minimum one service. Add-ons will not work if you do not have the base item ie no texting in plan roaming texting g will not work

Re: Moving to the US

navins94 — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:34:50 GMT

Thanks for your suggestions guys.

Yeah I'm planning to get a plan when I go there but I'm trying to go with a provider called mint that is similar to public mobile. they need some time to ship me the sim so I want to try and maintain service through public mobile if possible for the 10 days until they ship it to me.

I have a couple of other options such as getting a prepaid plan through T-mobile, for whom mint is an MVNO, but Im just fleshing out my options.

Thanks for your help guys 🙂

Re: Moving to the US

Mana — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:40:31 GMT

While you are waiting for the sim from mint, why don't you get fongo in the meantime, don't port your PM number to fongo but just forward your PM number to fongo, so while you are in U.S. , you can get your calls until you switch to mint.

Re: Moving to the US

navins94 — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:43:07 GMT

Yeah I hadn't heard of fongo until now but I'm looking into it! Thanks for the suggestion!

Re: Moving to the US

mimmo — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 01:01:44 GMT

You might be over thinking things.

When are you moving to the USA and when does your PM plan expire?

If you pm number is active while in US, just buy the US add-ons.

Forwarding to fongo will not work if you PM plan is expired.

Also are you on one of the old promo plans. I could be interested in taking it over.

Re: Moving to the US

will13am — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 01:41:38 GMT

Roam mobility is another option.

https://roammobility.com/

Re: Moving to the US

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Re: Moving to the US

sheytoon — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:14:55 GMT

@navins94

Have a look at H2O Wireless as well. They are another MVNO, but on AT&T's network. Very reasonable LTE plans.

You can buy SIM cards on eBay for cheap and activate here before you go.