American student -> multiple cell phones?

klmnop
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:38:37 +0000

I’m from the US and kept my phone when coming to canada. I had something called the ‘north american plan’ at verizon, though i think they changed the name of it. it was good, you still got the free calls from your area code and from verizon phones, which made it convenient to talk to friends and family back home. the issue that comes up is contacting friends in montreal, because the canadian kids from other provinces will get 514 numbers and the european kids will have to get new phones anyway. so what i did was i bought a vonage plan, in which you can pick your own area code, and had that number forwarded to my cell phone. so essentially i had a cell phone with two area codes. i couldnt send texts from that number, so i had to tell people that my texts come from a different number, but that doesnt bother people because either you have to pay for texts or you have unlimited, doesnt matter where its from.