Travel to Canada

I am headed to Montreal next week and I am scared to turn on the iPhone; the ATT international salesperson told me that the data rates could add to thousands of dollars very quickly -- my question is will the Canadian version of EDGE automatically connect me to data flow $$$$ (I would still like to use WiFi). Sorry to be so vague here...

If you don't place or receive any calls or select any function that requires internet access, you will not be charged and leaving the iPhone on Airplane mode prevents cell phone access, data access, WiFi and Bluetooth access.

Note that using your iPhone in Canada can be about the same cost as using your phone in the states.

Add the Canadian call/roaming package to your service (you an cancel it when you return). You'll see a couple dollar difference on your bill.

Here in Detroit almost all of us have added the Canadian package because you can't tell when you are connecting to a Detroit tower in downtown, and when you are connecting to a Windsor Ontario tower while downtown. I go to Toronto all the time and use my ATT over there and have never seen more than a few dollar difference on a bill with the canadian package added.

You have to make sure that if you do anything with data on your iPhone that you are connected to wifi. If not and an edge network is available, you will use it. Also, remember, visual voice mail is considered data. If you want to be safe, you can ask AT&T to mark you account for no data use (and text messages). I think this will carry over to roaming networks, but you might want to ask them about it.

Glor

Here's what I've been told by AT&T:

The rep said:

- You don't need to activate any sort of International Roaming on your AT&T account to use the iPhone in Canada. It will just work.
- You will be charged standard roaming fees while making and receiving calls.
- Like RonAnnArbor said, there is a plan to make lots of calls cheaper while roaming in Canada, and calling Canada from the states.
- You will be charged $0.0195 cents per KB of data sent and received while roaming in Canada. I assume this applies to Visual Voicemail, as well as e-mail and web stuff.

Check this link regarding international roaming and rates with AT&T Wireless.

http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/international/roaming/international-roaming.js p

Your calls are always applied against your minutes. Adding the Canadian package reduces your per-call cost while roaming inside Canada. There is no difference in calls TO canada.

Four days in Canada, $15 in data roaming fees, called AT&T and after an hour on hold, convinced them to waive the fee (thought I had turned off all data access). Be careful!