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DATA in Alberta Canada?
We're going to Alberta this fall - Waterton Lakes, Banff, Jasper. We have the Magenta MAX 55+ plan which provides 40gb/mo of hotspot data on our phones. Is there ANYTHING we need to do to have our ...
All you need to do is have roaming turned on in your devices settings for each device roaming in Canada. As a precaution, you can give Customer Care a call at 611 or reach out to them via Facebook or Twitter by sending them a DM to confirm your account is set to allow them to roam internationally. Just be mindful that data and hotspot allowances while traveling to Canada are significantly less than what your plan normally has in the US. I have personally been to Calgary and Banff. Very beautiful places to visit.
Looking at Telus, they don't seem interested in monthly prepaid plans with much data using my own phone… $55 for 10GB was the best I found. Bell MIGHT be marginally better 50GB for $50 and 75GB for $60. I'll have to call them and see where the "gotchas" are…
I found a couple “here’s how to get the best data” articles and they both pushed Phonebox, so I may have to call them and see if someone actually answers the phone...
