Roaming within Canada

makejopa
makejopa Posts: 32 ✭✭
edited January 17 in My Mobile

If I have a province only plan, what are my options if roaming within Canada to another province? Are there travel add ons? Can I pay per use and if so, what are the costs?

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  • popfizz
    popfizz Posts: 1,209 ✭✭
    edited January 15

    The coverage area you choose determines the expanse of the calls and texts included in your plan. If you choose the Canada coverage for instance, you can make or receive calls anywhere in the country. But with a province-only plan such as Quebec-only coverage, a call made or receive from Vancouver for example would not be included in your plan, and you’d have to buy a Travel Add-on.

  • MobileFizzer_VBMV6
    MobileFizzer_VBMV6 Posts: 685 ✭✭
    edited January 15

    From a very old forum post, not sure if still accurate. For some reason, Fizz don't advertise the pay-as-you-go pricing anymore.

    $0.10/MB
    $0.05/Text
    $0.25/Minute

    You can also buy travel add-ons "Canada". These prices are currently advertised.
    $4 per 60 Minutes, $4 per 200 texts.
    $10 for 500 MB, $20 for 1 GB, $30 for 2 GB.

    Travel data in Canada is so expensive with Fizz that I would use a 3rd party travel eSim instead. If you have a phone that supports this.

  • propea
    propea Posts: 572 ✭✭

    You can find all this in you fizz account

  • MobileFizzer_VBMV6
    MobileFizzer_VBMV6 Posts: 685 ✭✭

    @popfizz said:
    The coverage area you choose determines the expanse of the calls and texts included in your plan. But with a province-only plan such as Quebec-only coverage, a call made or receive from Vancouver for example would not be included in your plan.

    This information is a bit misleading.
    A call received from Vancouver while in your province of coverage (Québec in the above example) is of course included in the plan.
    Accepting an incoming call from anywhere while visiting Vancouver is not.

  • BradDoell
    BradDoell Posts: 440 ✭✭
    edited January 15

    Good morning @makejopa
    Here is the Fizz FAQ on the topic
    Texts are 5 cents each, calls 25 cents per minute.
    https://fizz.ca/en/faq/abcs-fizz-mobile-services
    I have found Fizz rates outside of canada to be competitive.
    For within Canada, the price per month is so minimal (one or two dollars per month I think?) that it may be worthwhile to change your plan, unless you have a super cheap plan you don’t want to change.
    Hope this helps
    Cheers,
    Brad

  • HudHud
    HudHud Posts: 166 ✭✭

    Thanks for the info guys.

  • Sébastien_C
    Sébastien_C Posts: 1,280 ✭✭
    edited January 15

    @BradDoell said:
    Good morning @makejopa
    Here is the Fizz FAQ on the topic
    Texts are 5 cents each, calls 25 cents per minute.
    https://fizz.ca/en/faq/abcs-fizz-mobile-services
    I have found Fizz rates outside of canada to be competitive.
    For within Canada, the price per month is so minimal (one or two dollars per month I think?) that it may be worthwhile to change your plan, unless you have a super cheap plan you don’t want to change.
    Hope this helps
    Cheers,
    Brad

    That information seems to be out of date. Calls are charged at 10 cents per minute now as seen in this screenshot taken from the "wallet" section of my account:

    And I can confirm that's the real price (plus taxes) they charged me when my plan didn't include unlimited minutes.

  • BeakBird
    BeakBird Posts: 5,733 ✭✭

    I would change to a Canada wide plan.

  • MobileFizzer_VBMV6
    MobileFizzer_VBMV6 Posts: 685 ✭✭
    edited January 15

    And I can confirm that's the real price (plus taxes) they charged me when my plan didn't include unlimited minutes

    Calls within your coverage area when you don't have unlimited are different though from calls made from your coverage area to the rest of Canada which again are different from calls made from outside your coverage area.

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