e-sim recommendation

Some Canadian providers have US voice+data rolled into their plans.

I'm with Public Mobile and for $34/mo I get 50GB at 5G + unlimited calling and SMS for Canada and the US. The rollover is seamless when I cross the border and no additional plans or fiddling around with SW or HW.
did you have to activate roaming? I did when I went to NY
 
Some Canadian providers have US voice+data rolled into their plans.

I'm with Public Mobile and for $34/mo I get 50GB at 5G + unlimited calling and SMS for Canada and the US. The rollover is seamless when I cross the border and no additional plans or fiddling around with SW or HW.

Great deal, does the plan include voice mail or offered as an add on as it is not listed on their site.
 
Great deal, does the plan include voice mail or offered as an add on as it is not listed on their site.
it does, i have it as well.

Just note it is not unlimited data, you will start getting charged after the 50GB usage until the billing period resets.
 
did you have to activate roaming? I did when I went to NY

With most pre-paid accounts, you can leave roaming on all the time on your phone. So if you're not on a plan that covers you when you are roaming, it simply will not connect to the network since you haven't pre-paid for roaming.

Great deal, does the plan include voice mail or offered as an add on as it is not listed on their site.

Yeah, voice mail and call display standard.
 
Just note it is not unlimited data, you will start getting charged after the 50GB usage until the billing period resets.

If you're talking about Public Mobile, you don't get charged for overage, it just throttles your bandwidth.

As per the fine print under "Offer Details":


Data speeds reduced to a maximum of 512Kbps after your included high-speed data bucket is exhausted.
 
Some Canadian providers have US voice+data rolled into their plans.

I'm with Public Mobile and for $34/mo I get 50GB at 5G + unlimited calling and SMS for Canada and the US. The rollover is seamless when I cross the border and no additional plans or fiddling around with SW or HW.

I'm stuck on a corporate plan, so I'll be looking around once I retire. But chances are, I'll probably have to stay with Rogers even though I only get 2 or 3 bars of signal strength where I live. When I tried Bell or Telus in the past, it was even worse and sometimes got no service in some rooms.
 
For future reference for anyone looking, www.esimdb.com is my go-to reference for esim hunting. There are always new companies out there offering promotions and deals, so don't just go with one provider over and over again assuming they have the best deal. Although my current cellphone plan with Freedom has US roaming, it gets throttled (to almost unusable) after 1 gig of USA usage, so I end up buying esims quite often when we travel, and in the last 4-5 years I've used probably 20 different providers.

We are on vacation in the near future and I've also got another esim lined up for that trip where we'll be in Aruba, Curacao, and around the Bahamas as well - an "Island Hopper" sim that cost about $20 for a week of service and 5 gigs of data across all the islands we're travelling to was hard to beat this time around.
 
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