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c_sea 发表于 2013-3-5 15:10 
You shall ask this question earlier, I have an unlocked Blackberry . Here is a good plan ,
http:/ ...
西海你用过它家的服务没有?
我搜了一下网上的评测, 好像覆盖和服务有撞运气的成分......我继续研究一下.
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I bought a Breeze phone, a SIm card and 7 day roaming package for my daughter in Feb. 2012 when she took a trip to California. We were never able to get the phone activated nor were the Roam Mobility people when we called them numerous times. 2 weeks later, and many phone calls later, they assured me the problem was rectified and that I would have a working phone when I took a business trip to Las Vegas. Well i'm in Vegas, with no phone, no ability to text and more assurances from Roam Mobility that they will "do their best to try to get this working". I'm a pretty patient and reasonable person, but I've had it. Should have just brought my Blackberry and paid the roaming charges.
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Here’s what you get – and don’t get – with Roam Mobility.
We purchased a SIM card to use in our unlocked Samsung Nexus smartphone (Android operating system) for a 3+ week trip to Florida.
We got problem free telephone and texting where signals were available – more about that later. Once we called Roam for very specific and complicated set up details, we got data service too – where available. They don’t supply the information required to set this up, and we never would have had a clue.
Compared to Rogers, we got roaming rates that were ridiculously cheap. I don’t know that on a world scale the rates are great, but we Canadians get hosed so badly by our monopoly providers that anything feels better. We also got a flexible rate plan and a US number that we can keep, provided we use the service once a year. Roam’s support staff is uniformly pleasant and helpful.
What we didn’t get was coverage. Sure, in major centres – large to medium size cities and on most portions of the interstates - there was usually no problem, although the data service was slow compared to Canada. But we like to get off the beaten track and take our time to see a bit of the countryside on our Florida trips. In these cases, we were without coverage in major portions of Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, etc. There is officially no coverage anywhere in West Virginia – we knew that ahead of time – but that extends into the southern portion of Pennsylvania and northern Virginia also. This coverage blackout also officially occurs in a number of western and north-eastern states.
Roam used to advertise that they cover “96% of the US”. How they could make that claim, given the number of states they officially do not cover, is beyond me. That wording is now gone from their website. My conclusion is that if you are flying or driving directly to a major US destination, Roam is a good way to go. But if you are staying in smaller places off major traffic routes, you will be without a phone.
We have continued to use Roam, despite its limitations, just because we resent being robbed by Rogers. On a trip to Michigan, just outside of Detroit, the 3-day plan was great. On a recent trip to Washington DC, where our route was partially off interstates in New York and Pennsylvania, it was less satisfactory - many hours with no signal.
Roam uses the T-Mobile network, although I suspect not all of it. Interestingly, where Roam was not available, AT&T usually was. But AT&T does not have a convenient package for short trips. You can get a SIM card and a pretty good 30-day plan if you buy it in the states, but you lose your number at the end of it.
We’ll keep using Roam for day/short trips to the US, but on our next longer excursion I think we might try the AT&T option.
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Like the previous poster from TO I found the ROAM coverage, which is only from T-Mobile and does not include any of its partners, is the big draw back. The current version of their (Roam's) web site now gives a much more accurate representation of where you can get coverage. Unfortunately much of the area just south of the border that is easily accessible by car from Canada doesn't have coverage. Where there is coverage this is a great alternative to the ridiculously high roaming fees we Canadians pay while using our phones in the US. |
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