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Devils'Advocate · 04-01-2010, 06:49 PM

I currently have an iPhone with the 6GB data plan. I plan on taking the phone to Phoenix/Vegas with me. Now I just went over to the Rogers store and the only somewhat helpful attendant put the $10 data roaming plan onto my existing data plan. So as I understand it, I can use my whole 6GB while I'm traveling around the south western states. So I can move up the rankings of "Own This World" for only $10? Sounds good to me. Almost too good to be true.

Now the other concern I have is voice. I'll want to make some calls back to Ottawa and to Nova Scotia, plus I know that I'm gonna be getting calls from both places. Now from the way the attendant explained it, I can pay $40 and get 70 roaming minutes. Now I don't get "roaming minutes"... is that just time that I spend on the phone, both for incoming and outgoing calls? So if I left my phone on for the whole week and made no calls out and received no calls there would be no roaming charges?

From what the attendant was telling me was that roaming only allows you to use those 70 minutes for local calls so she recommended that I buy the 70 roaming minutes and then buy a calling card for calling back to Canada. Which doesn't seem to make any sense since most calling cards require calling a 800 number which are restricted from the roaming minutes. So I'm totally lost here.

Also, text messages are $1 per message, incoming or outgoing. Since I can't control who is texting me I could pile up a massive charge on these things. Is there a way to block text messages while I'm in the U.S.?

04-01-2010, 06:49 PM	#1
Devils'Advocate #1 Goaltender Join Date: Jul 2005 Exp:	1001 Questions about Taking cell phone to U.S. I currently have an iPhone with the 6GB data plan. I plan on taking the phone to Phoenix/Vegas with me. Now I just went over to the Rogers store and the only somewhat helpful attendant put the $10 data roaming plan onto my existing data plan. So as I understand it, I can use my whole 6GB while I'm traveling around the south western states. So I can move up the rankings of "Own This World" for only $10? Sounds good to me. Almost too good to be true. Now the other concern I have is voice. I'll want to make some calls back to Ottawa and to Nova Scotia, plus I know that I'm gonna be getting calls from both places. Now from the way the attendant explained it, I can pay $40 and get 70 roaming minutes. Now I don't get "roaming minutes"... is that just time that I spend on the phone, both for incoming and outgoing calls? So if I left my phone on for the whole week and made no calls out and received no calls there would be no roaming charges? From what the attendant was telling me was that roaming only allows you to use those 70 minutes for local calls so she recommended that I buy the 70 roaming minutes and then buy a calling card for calling back to Canada. Which doesn't seem to make any sense since most calling cards require calling a 800 number which are restricted from the roaming minutes. So I'm totally lost here. Also, text messages are $1 per message, incoming or outgoing. Since I can't control who is texting me I could pile up a massive charge on these things. Is there a way to block text messages while I'm in the U.S.?