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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Sprint PCS / June 2006Sprint call from Canada ?
What would they charge on a Fair & Flexible contract for a call from Canada to the US ? > What would they charge on a Fair & Flexible contract for a call from > Canada to the US ? If you're IN Canada and making a call into the US, I beleive there's a roaming charge for that, and an LD charge. But if someone FROM Canada calls you while you're in the US, then you're just charged airtime.  SignatureE-mail fudged to thwart spammers. Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply. In November, 2005 I was on a F&F plan and in Vancouver, BC. I have no special Canada option on my plan. While there I set my phone's roaming menu to 'Automatic' and my phone roamed on both Canadian CDMA providers Telus and Bell Canada. Outgoing calls from Vancouver to San Francisco, incoming calls from San Francisco to Vancouver, and outgoing calls from Vancouver to Vancouver were all 65 cents per minute. So airtime was 65 cents per minute regardless of the direction or location of the other end. When I was within a mile or so of the US border, I could set my phone's roaming menu to "Sprint only" and use a Sprint signal and my plan's included minutes. This also was the case in Niagara Falls, ON. FYI, before leaving home, calls from San Francisco to Vancouver were 42 cents per minute. > What would they charge on a Fair & Flexible contract for a call from > Canada to the US ? SignatureFrank Harris in San Francisco with a A920 > Vancouver to Vancouver were all 65 cents per minute. Did you mean to say Vancouver to SFO ? Just airtime is charged ? I thought maybe they would nail you $5 for the next xx number of minutes. > In November, 2005 I was on a F&F plan and in Vancouver, BC. I have no > special Canada option on my plan. While there I set my phone's roaming [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> What would they charge on a Fair & Flexible contract for a call from >> Canada to the US ? Joe - No, I said "Vancouver to San Francisco" at the start of that sentence. "Vancouver to Vancouver" means we were in downtown Vancouver and called the car rental agency at the Vancouver airport. You did not ask about calls within Canada, but I included that information as well. Yes, just airime at 65 cents per minute. This was in November, 2005. Rates may be different now, but Sprint's website shows 65 cents per minute: www.sprint.com/internationalroaming No, in that billing period, we only used 541 shared anytime minutes of the 800 in our family plan, so there was no $5 upcharge to the next tier. The 39 Roaming minutes (at 65 cents each) in Canada appeared in a unique category (which does not appear in a month with no international travel) on the bill's "Total Minutes Used" summary. They were not like domestic roaming minutes that are summed separately but then included in your anytime or night & weekend buckets. These 65 cent minutes did not impact our anytime or night & weekend buckets. > > Vancouver to Vancouver were all 65 cents per minute. > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >>> What would they charge on a Fair & Flexible contract for a call from >>> Canada to the US ? SignatureFrank Harris in San Francisco with a A920 |
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