@rossputin
I am a fan of a dual SIM phone. With pm the advantage when travelling only applies in the US since they do not offer any services elsewhere in the world. But if you were to have an extended stay in the US you would be able to continue to recieve pm texts but have a mint mobile plan/sim card in the other sim card slot.
In Canada you could have a second account that you use for data in the second slot. It could be with pm or another provider such as the offerings by Shaw or fido's data account.
Even taking advantage of CCS offer of a 5gb bonus data add on with the discounted activation bundle of the $25 plan means you would pay $20+tax ($21 total since you are in bc) and recieve a total of 7gb of data add ons and 500 international long distance calling minutes. You would refer yourself to recieve a $10 bonus referral credit for that new account that you could then downgrade to the $15 once you recieve the 5gb data add on.
You would also benefit from the $30 bonus referral credit. Taken as whole you come out $19 ahead of the game. Suspend the new account until the extra data is needed or reactivate every 90 days. With the autopay reward the cost to maintain the account is $39 per 360 days. Or with the above promos a total out of pocket cost of $20.
This is how a dual SIM phone can benefit you...
