So my Canadian grandparents are always spending time in Texas and North Carolina every year.
They are currently signed up for a plan with a Canadian company (Rogers), but since they are always in the States, they want to be able to use their cell phone down here as well.
A salesman suggested that they purchase a SIM card and plan from a US carrier and just swap out the cards when they cross the border.
Anybody know anything about this? How do you go about getting one?
[quote=“J Felt, post:1, topic:25335”]So my Canadian grandparents are always spending time in Texas and North Carolina every year.
They are currently signed up for a plan with a Canadian company (Rogers), but since they are always in the States, they want to be able to use their cell phone down here as well.
A salesman suggested that they purchase a SIM card and plan from a US carrier and just swap out the cards when they cross the border.
Anybody know anything about this? How do you go about getting one?[/quote]It depends on the carrier and the phone if there is a physical SIM card. Verizon does not use SIM cards for example. But if the carrier uses SIM cards then it’s just a matter of going to the carrier and signing up for a plan and asking for the SIM card to be programmed and they will put it in the phone themselves.
We do this every time we go overseas or across to Canada.
As long as they have a sim card phone (GSM) they are good. They can just buy a pre-pay sim card and plug it right into their phone when they are traveling. You can talk to your local phone store and buy these. Specifically, for T-Mobile, I just walk in and speak to the representative. They set it up so all you have to do is plug in your new sim card and your read to go. Just be sure your grandparents have their important numbers backed up onto their phone, as phone numbers sometimes only store on the sim card.