Sorry Pilot was rude to you. To answer the QUESTION, yes you can add the Canada package to Verizon, it was $10 four years ago and when you re-enter the US, have it removed. Don't ask at a Verizon store as most of them don't know what they are doing, call and try to talk to someone in this country. I won't use it this trip as I have an old contract with free internet at times and they said they can't give me my old contract back if I add Canada as they have no button on their console for it.lol. Any phone card will work they just charge extra minutes. Many places have had pay phones removed from lack of use but since cell coverage is so spotty in the mountains there will be landlines available.
After 15 year over the road running south, and hearing how and what Americans talk about, I am justified in what I said. The jist of the thing is, while sitting in restaurants, waiting in shipping offices etc, all Americans seem to think they are the most advanced civilization on the world and the rest of the world should catch up. A point from a previous post about an American family coming north for a vacation, and worried about the availability of health care. What, do you think we only have witch doctors or something.
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I will agree with you that the previous thread about health care was over the top, "I am concerned that I will not get proper health care in Canada" The posting by Notlost does not fall into this category. Pay phones are getting hard to find in the US, is it the same in Canada? or do we have some regulation that we have to have a certain number of payphones. How would they know this.
On here Americans are critisised for thinking it's going to be different up here & at other times for thinking it's going to be the same as in the US, "It is a different country you know"! Sometimes they just can't win.
I know very well of what you speak in your post, living in a major tourist centre, I could write a book on some of the stuff Ive heard, but this isn't one of those!
notlost wrote: what is availability of pay phones in BC and Yukon?
i am hoping to use computer via wi-fi (email and skypes)
Do you think we are a THIRD WORLD country?????
If you think that then DO NOT come up here. Try doing a little back ground checking before you wonder out of your little bubble of a country that thinks they are the only advanced country in the world. And if you dont think Canada is advanced enough for you, then check out the Canada-Arm that flew on the Shuttle Missions. Check out the Mapping and Envirronmental Satellite company that your government is trying to buy from us, but we wont let it.
Just get over your fears of wandering across your border into another country and thinking your are going to the last frontier!!!
PavementPilot wrote: After 15 year over the road running south, and hearing how and what Americans talk about, I am justified in what I said. The jist of the thing is, while sitting in restaurants, waiting in shipping offices etc, all Americans seem to think they are the most advanced civilization on the world and the rest of the world should catch up. A point from a previous post about an American family coming north for a vacation, and worried about the availability of health care. What, do you think we only have witch doctors or something.
Well....actually we have witch doctors.....they live in Nelson BC...mostly draftdodgers from the US.
Orion wrote: I will agree with you that the previous thread about health care was over the top, "I am concerned that I will not get proper health care in Canada" The posting by Notlost does not fall into this category. Pay phones are getting hard to find in the US, is it the same in Canada? or do we have some regulation that we have to have a certain number of payphones. How would they know this.
On here Americans are critisised for thinking it's going to be different up here & at other times for thinking it's going to be the same as in the US, "It is a different country you know"! Sometimes they just can't win.
I know very well of what you speak in your post, living in a major tourist centre, I could write a book on some of the stuff Ive heard, but this isn't one of those!
The reason I don't go to the US because it's so bloody difficult to cross the border these days.
I have also heard some horror stories about people not being able to buy gas on credit cards because the canadian postal codes don't work down there, lol.
( I'm not even talking about a friend who had a heart attack down there and it ruined his financial situation.)
Last year I travelled across Europe through 7 countries and not once did I need to stop at a border.
Get back on topic and be more civil with the responses or this one is dead!! It is not unreasonable to wonder about pay phone availability. They are getting rare as hen's teeth in the US. If you don't like the way someone asks a question, ignore them and move on. Don't mess up a thread because you don't like it. More like that will get deleted with no comments.
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thanks to MOST of you for answering my request. my concerns, although i don't feel i need to justify them, were due to the fact that pay phones in most of the areas i travel (in the US) are slowly disappearing with the advent of cell phones.
after reading through your reponses, i will probably purchase a calling card and use it when wi-fi is not available and where pay phones are available.
if i do find a better alternative, i will post any information on the forum.
thanks, again..
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sirdrakejr wrote: Get back on topic and be more civil with the responses or this one is dead!! It is not unreasonable to wonder about pay phone availability. They are getting rare as hen's teeth in the US. If you don't like the way someone asks a question, ignore them and move on. Don't mess up a thread because you don't like it. More like that will get deleted with no comments.
Frank
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I haven't run into a mall or a food chain yet that don't have a pay phone, once you enter Canada you could get one of those pay and talk cell phones from wallymart for next to nothing that comes with a credit.
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