Here is some info about US roaming add ons that should help you.....
While you have to have an active plan to purchase and use US roaming add ons the type of plan you have does not affect the roaming add ons features.
US roaming add ons start the moment you confirm and submit your purchase in your self serve account and expire 240 hours later (10 days×24 hours).
You can pre-load the funds needed to purchase the add ons in your self serve account so you only have to log in, select the US roaming add on and then confirm and submit your purchase.
Wait til late as possible to purchase since they are immediately valid so on free wifi at the destination airport or stopping shortly before the border at mcd's or timmy's to buy the add on while on free wifi.
If you are staying longer than 10 days you must wait a minimum of 24 hours to purchase the same US roaming add on or contact the moderators to add it before the waiting period ends.
If you have two US roaming add ons with a talk feature that overlap the talk feature basically gets disabled. Avoid this....but you will have to get one removed by a moderator to get your calling feature back if this happens.
After purchase reboot your phone and manually select either at&t or T-mobile to get better reception. Some areas have better coverage by either provider so when travelling around the US you will be better served by choosing the provider with better signal strength by locale.
You will recieve incoming texts without any US roaming add ons. Adding the fongo app and textnow app for use on wifi are good to use for a back up plan or you could call forward your pm phone # to your fongo # before you leave Canada and purchase just the US data roaming add on. Fongo also works on mobile data (1 min=0.5mb/100 min=50mb) so you could still recieve incoming pm texts, recieve incoming pm calls to your fongo #/app, outgoing calls from your fongo number and outgoing texts from textnow for free or small fee from fongo.
All US roaming add ons have either unlimted text, talk or both. Only data has limits depending on your purchase 250mb/500mb/1gb. Once the data is consumed it will just stop you could then purchase different roaming add on, wait 24 hr to buy or contact the moderator to buy the same US roaming add on again. (* except talk as previously mentioned.)
Happy travels and Stay--Safe!
For longer stays in the US a local sim card is a more economic. Look into mint mobile it offers 90 day plans (per month) starting at US $15/4gb to $30/unlimited data plans with unlimited calling and international texts to Canada and Mexico. Mint mobile sim cards are available for shipping to Canada from B&H photo.
Another option available from Canadian Cell Supplies is an At&t sim card and plan that has unlimited calling and texting and a variety of data amounts for use in Canada, the US and Mexico. They are offered in 10, 15, 30, 60 and 90 day packages and are on sale with a 10% to 30% discount with a free sim card. This option may work for you but come with a preselected US number that is non-transferable.
PM has no regular US data plans, only 10-days roaming packages.
If you're planning a long stay in the States, it may be more practical and cheaper to buy a US SIM and get a local plan (ex: Mintmobile.com offers plans starting from $15 with lots more data than equivalent PM plans).
By suspending the PM service (maximum 89 days, but renewable after a payment), the money saved could pay for a good chunk of the US plans.
@BLays Sorry not at the moment they don't offer any plan with data to use in the US (if that's your question). You'd need to purchase a 10 day US roaming add-on for any talk/data usage whilst there.
PM did offer a plan with 2GB of US data in a plan that was offered for a few weeks in late summer 2019 but, unfortunately. decided to discontinue it. It was quite popular for customers who made frequent trips down south I believe.
HowTo Purchase Add-Ons Using Your Self-Serve Account
To purchase Add-Ons using your Self-Serve account, follow these steps:
Click on ‘Purchase Add- Ons’ on the Overview tab and scroll down to the Add-On calculator.
Click the plus sign (+) to add and the minus sign (-) to remove selected Add-ons.
When you’ve added all your desired Add-Ons, click ‘Buy Add-Ons’ or ‘Make a Payment’ below the calculator:
You will see ‘Make a Payment’ instead of ‘Buy Add-Ons’ if there are not enough funds in your account to make the purchase.
If you don’t have sufficient funds to purchase the Add-Ons, you will be asked to make a one-time payment equal to the price of the Add-On, less your current available funds. Click ‘Submit’, then ‘Go back’: now the button below the calculator will say ‘Buy Add-Ons’.
Select ‘Confirm my purchase’, and you’re off to the races!
after you Add-on you have to do Rebooting your phone
what is mean for Rebooting the phone means to turn off your phone and turn it back on again.
