The Best US Cell Phone Plans Available in Canada | Are There ANY Options???

Cell phone plan prices in Canada are OUTRAGEOUS... So are there any US plans in Canada? I set out to find that answer... and Canadians, I'm sorry, but you're stuck with these crazy prices! Learn more at Whistleout.com OR WhistleOut.ca (for my Canadian friends)
0:00 | Intro US Plans In Canada
1:30 | Canadian Cell Phone Plan Prices
3:00 | Using US Service in Canada?!
4:20 | Comparing US Plans and Canadian Plans
6:30 | Unlimited Plans from Canada
9:00 | Sorry Canada
#CellPhonePlans #telecom #Canada

[@utopiac679]

Ryan Reynolds is Canadian and one of the founders of Mint Mobile. Maybe he should take on the Canadian wireless network market!!

[@kensonfelizier]

Two things that are wawaay too expensive in Canada... Air Travel.. and Cell Phone Plans.

[@Ouisoui]

Also Home prices, income taxes and gst/hst taxes.

[@Adri-xi5mw]

And car insurance

[@MrRedtaco11]

I am Canadian and this has been a problem for the last couple of decades. Companies have come in and got bought out by the big 3. I am with one of the sub company for one of the big three and I pay $42cdn a month for unlimited text, calling but I am at 3G. After my 4GB alotted it gets throttled down from 3G. Unless you go into a contact, go into 5G and be on a contact with a new phone I would be paying more than $100.00 a month(CDN) Great right! Come for the health care, stay to get screwed by the cell phone companies. They have a Monopoly and do everything they can to where there is no competition. The Canadian Government has said they’d push back and never have. Yeah! We are a free country. And in this free country to get screwed by just a few people who make loads of money off of us. Oh Canada!

[@skwish6401]

In a group of G7 countries, there is a third world country called Canada. Compare standard of living yourself with USA may shock you. For entry into Canada, you have to pay 100 usd in US for Covid 19 negative test even after fully vaccinated. Bad approach by Canadians.

[@petey80]

I have a friend that was in South Korea for a couple years. He said over there the service was amazing and super inexpensive. He was blown away. US and Canada are getting screwed! 😂

[@DigitalYojimbo]

Korean is a small country smaller than some states and provinces. Higher density is a key factor to getting cheap prices.

[@mattmatti3525]

South Korea acutally has the best internet infrastructurein in the world

[@Ouisoui]

@@DigitalYojimbo i know it plays a vital role for the cell phone connections.

[@anshrx9]

What if my friend sends me a brand new phone from US to Canada. Is there any duty I need to pay while receiving the phone?

[@sandhuns1241]

Im Canadian my cousin brother living in USA he add one more line in his plan with AT&T for $25 everything unlimited Usa & Canadian side🤑 I never turn my wifi on ! Watching KZbin Netflix no issue!

[@pauljones9150]

any updates on this?

[@jamesburgesssnc]

Question for Sherry....For 10 years I was a snowbird spending months in Venice Fl. As I only use my cell phone when on the road, I purchased a T-Mobile Prepaid package for $100.00 and did annual top up for $10. Due to COVID I sold my home in Fl and did not continue the service with T-Mobile. I am planning a road trip mid March to mid April and would like a low cost, low use plan for 30 days 9no renewal) while in USA. What do you recommend? I still have the t-mobile SIM but no service. Include cost of SIM if required, activation of a phone # and 30 day call (data + text interested but not absolutely required.

[@stephenjames820]

I lived in the States for 14 years and returned to Canada in 2006 and was blown away by the cost of cell service. We opted for Virgin's prepaid plan $10 per month and 10 cents a minute. We hardly used the phone so basically for emergencies. We are now searching for alternatives and the search is frustrating and looks like it is going to be expensive!! A couple of years ago Verizon wanted to get into the Canadian market and after a year of research and thousands of hit/negative/fear ads by the big three, Bell, Rogers and Tellus Verizon decided it wasn't worth their time so again Canadians are screwed!!

[@stephenjames820]

@Lina S I have a friend in the same situation and he uses Rogers, pays a special rate and calls from Florida. Not sure what he pays but he says it is affordable! Cheers!

[@angryaardvark2124]

Well I wasted 10 minutes. What was the point of this? Didn’t even help me 1 bit on what visiting Canada will entail such as much to my carrier has roaming etc.

[@lelovestrains4270]

Fonus data only plan?

[@darkyassin]

Is Fonus any good?

[@MajSiddiqui]

Does anyone know if Bell Mobility's pre-paid plans are on the 5G network? Thanks.

[@adammacer]

Yes, Bell knows and would be happy to tell you

[@robbw4264]

I spend a fair bit of time in the UK and well -misery loves company - so to all my American friends I suggest looking at what a UK cell phone plan costs (and you can come to feel some our pain too lol) - unlimited talk/text and 5G for 20 pounds (or 30 bucks)per month -- and when they say unlimited your first - get ready - 650 GB or 1,000 GB (depending on carrier) each month is full on 100% 5G speed. Once you've burned thru your 650 to 1000 GB of data you get throttled. Brits buy a sim and stick it in a hotspot a their primary home internet.

[@jono3175]

Wtf I’m getting robbed I literally pay 96 for 25 gigs and unlimited at 525kbp

[@shazol92]

It's a shame that being a G7 country, Canada doesn't have true MVNO.

[@EmeraldMeadows]

Thanks for telling us exactly what we already know

[@mpritchard9097]

Can I and what is the cost to by a SIM card to use during my trip to the United States?

[@adammacer]

Yes, Simple Mobile SIMs are $1, available in BestBuy amongst other places and they have pretty cheap plans

[@Channel-iu7rn]

AT&T unlimited plans say in Canada may be limited to 2G speeds, but it's usually not. I'm sure it's just AT&T's way to cover themselves in case the roaming agreement changes and they do have to throttle. As for the 50% usage for two or more consecutive months this limit was removed in June 2018. This was reportedly done for competitive reasons. Makes sense, Verizon and T-Mobile still limit Canada roaming to this day.

[@adamtajyar]

I would say Magenta Max for T-Mobile and AT&T elite are the two best plans for US based plans in terms of features.

[@whistleout]

I agree! but if you use more than 50% of your total data usage outside the US for too many months... both carriers can give you the boot without any warning.

[@adamtajyar]

@@whistleout true yes with a few exception for t-mobile at least. No heavy roaming cut offs. If it’s an employee account, government account, or active duty military account. My sister is the military so it doesn’t apply to me lol

[@kinghill500]

Love ❤️ your videos 👏🏾

[@whistleout]

Love to hear it! thanks for watching!

[@SharpCats371]

🤔Would an American plan work in Canada as I live in Windsor, Ont. across from Detroit Michigan ( cell towers are on Renaissance Center about 600 feet tall building)? 😻 Detroit River is 1/2 to 1 mile across to either city. 🤗

[@StephenClark]

Airwaves don't honour borders, so it should be possible to turn off international roaming and use that plan as much as 40-50km away from the nearest tower. However, wireless signal quality drops exponentially with distance, so your download speeds and call quality can drop QUICKLY the further you get. If you leave international roaming turned on while in Windsor, your phone may prefer to connect with a stronger signal in Canada, and you lose the benefits of a cheap American 5G plan.

[@whistleout]

@sharpbusline if you wanted to try it out for a month on a prepaid plan or something, that might be your best bet to test out this theory. low cost, potential high reward!

[@lytuhoangnam]

Are both in CAD?

[@SantaClausEdmonton]

Can I use a international American plan in canada. That would give me similar service has canadian plan ? And pay less at the end ?

[@TjPhysicist]

Ya like the tmo ones, check the small print though. I know for tmo for example they tell you that if your usage shows more than a certain percentage in the month outside of USA for data after a certain period they'll cut the data or some such.

[@NevadaLamb]

Yes, when I was in Toronto I was able to use the international plan (Verizon). It wasn’t unlimited, but it was better than nothing and if I needed more I could buy more data. I would recommend downloading videos tho to save on data.

[@carboGP]

Im moving to canada, but do NOT want to change my US phone number at any cost. I'll pay up to 150$ for a US plan that has *free unlimited no barriers Canada high speed data*.. What do you recommend? Tmobile has a 5GB hi speed canada limit, and verizon has a 60 day limit... What else is there?

[@nickgagner3798]

AT&T allows unlimited Canada roaming with no caveats. Prepaid will get you access to just Rogers and postpaid will get you access to Telus and Bell in addition to Rogers. I live on the US side near the border and go to Canada all the time to see family, I always get full 4G speeds. I used about 15 gigs in New Brunswick last week and was never throttled

[@carboGP]

@@nickgagner3798 @whistleout I just learned about Google-Fi - that also seems very attractive - any experience there?

[@g1984AF]

My brother uses mint mobile in Vancouver

[@homobohemicus]

Visiting Canada soon and checked the rates for a SIM card with apx. 10GB of data.... Suffice to say that I am still on the floor after falling off my stool. I am truly surprised the exorbitant and unjustified rates of regular mobile phone services... In Europe we in CZE have one of the most expensive rates on the continent and still I am paying 14CAD for 10GB of data and unlimited calls/sms + you gotta love the no roaming charges in the whole of EU = Doesn´t matter if you cross the borders.. calls/data runs normally as if you were at home without restrictions. One question comes to mind though... Doesn´t Canada have an antimonopoly or antitrust laws to combat market share control by a couple of companies?

[@adammacer]

Roaming charges are a complete scam

[@robinnguyen7394]

sidenote: canada doesn't include US talk, text, data for another $20/per month from Rogers, Telus and bell

[@mirandamansfield1373]

I mean, I live in the US and have T-Mobile. I have unlimited everything and pay $75/mo. These prices are extremely low for the US. There is also something to be said for the difference between the conversion between USD vs CAD.

[@aloevera7720]

I've never paid more than 45 bucks for phone plan in usa. i usually go for the 20-30 $ plan anyways.

[@petersmith2040]

People in the US get screwed by the high health care costs. People in Canada get screwed by the high cell phone plan costs. People in Europe get screwed by the high petrol/diesel prices. The alternative is moving to Mexico if you want low cost of living.

[@gyadre]

Right now in Canada for 120 GB with unlimited call and text is $75/-

[@carolinacoca]

Fast forward to June of 2024 the prices have gotten a little better I pay $50.00 for 75 GB unlimited calls in Canada and unlimited text to Canada and USA

[@DougsterCanada1]

The exchange rate is currently 27% so 1.00 USD is 1.27 CDN we get hurt there too.

[@fredhubbard7210]

Nope. You have it backward. $US is worth more that $CDN. $25CD = $18USD. So Canadian 5gb plan is slightly less than 2x the US plan.

[@ibrahima891]

you should've mentioned the cost of adding data after your data is over, $25 for 2gig only and I live it's not to gig because you will only have it for 2 days without almost not using it, !!

[@jkb462]

Haha the real problem is the budget carriers. Once they get access to the networks they end up gauging customers just as badly as the incumbents. It’s already happened in the wireline internet access space.

[@adammacer]

I think you mean "When they get bought up by one of the big 3 they end up gouging, etc.." (gauging is measuring something)

[@jkb462]

@@adammacer yes, gouging. But it happens before they get bought up. they offer less robust services… offer sub par support and have very little overhead. Thus carry out more inconspicuous gouging under the guise of David vs Goliath. Regulators have known this for 15+ years and its why the little guys “never catch any breaks”.

[@leonardgiles70]

you should look into fonus mobile

[@nancybrowning3380]

I am hearing about a sim card called Fonus good for Canada/USA/Mexico

[@DonWon4725]

Canadian Cell phone plans are crazy expensive your better simply having ten dollar line per-month for emergency reasons, if your wanting super cheaper but no recommended is Lucky Mobile which is owned out right by Bell Canada only issue your using either 3/4G like the name of the company says you'll be lucky enough to get signal at those price points.

[@toyotamanny7178]

Just like socialized healthcare. We pay through the nose (with taxes) and don’t have have great options.

[@adammacer]

LOL.. go live in the US and then you'll find out all about what paying thru the nose means..

[@shauncameron8390]

@@adammacer But at least in the US, a person can get timely healthcare.

[@adammacer]

@@shauncameron8390 IF they can afford it.. and if you can't, too bad sucker.. You can get timely health care if you're Canadian too, if you pay extra for it, which probably usually wouldn't cost in total, in the grand scheme, much or any more including any taxes paid for social health care, than someone paying for US insurance, given the super-inflated cost of health care there.. Keep trying to kid yourself it's better - it isn't..

[@Fraden7]

What did you do to your hair ?

[@whistleout]

what do you mean?

[@StephenClark]

Canadian influence 🍁

[@MeetDaveG]

@@whistleout Hair looks great to me, I dig it. Whatever makes you happy! :)

[@philip1065]

Yup we get screwed on telecom, airfare, gas prices (considering we export), and taxes just to name a few

[@tuyetnhungnguyenthi8871]

🎵 Music is coming up!

[@cecilfollis4909]

I'm watching this right now on a prepaid us cellular burner phone from Walmart US. I live very near the US border & can use it within about 10km from any US tower. Prepaid @$55us unlimited data, calls & text.

[@logangraham2956]

honestly i don't need a cell phone plan because even if i got a cell phone it would never leave the house. what i need is a plan to point websites 2Fa to because like almost every damn site now days is requiring a cell phone for 2Fa except for steam which actually does 2Fa justice by allowing by email codes. so i want the plan to be able to receive these 2Fa codes but nothing else and then i'll go buy the absolute cheapest dollar store cell phone and then duck tap it to the side of my desktop computer XD.

[@daishi15]

I love Visible Base for $25

[@adammacer]

Try Fonus - available to Canadians with 20gb data for US$30/month. ONly issue is calls/texts have to be done thru their app.. if you can live with that it seems like a no-brainer.. just about to switch from Fido after a month of crappy service -despite their Network Coverage map showing I'm within their area it turns out I'm only in the the Extended Coverage area with limited connectivity (also shown on the map but nowhere near me) - and after dumping Koodo for treating me like sh*t over erroneous roaming charges after 12 years with them. Fingers crossed for a better experience

[@nogaaalovely7460]

Thinking of switching to fonus as well. How is it so far?

[@TjPhysicist]

I'm using my dual sim on my pixel phone, one of which I've kept as a US sim my parents pay for (part of family plan from T-Mobile). I don't just the data here (though I did for a while) and I was told that after a few months if your usage is mostly in Canada they put a stop to it (never happened yet), but it's there and used for calling etc and works great. Afaik Google Fi didn't even have the small print stuff that tmo and the others have (which, again, they're very good with not being assholes about it so far at least). I was in India for 3 years, visited the USA maybe 2 times a year week or two each time and that was it, worked great even data (this was fi). Before I got the Canadian number I was using the us one for a while, but again, they do tell you outright that if your usage skews too much into roaming after a certain time they'll cut your data so ymmv on that. The sad part is, other than that small print it's actually cheaper to pay for an American plan on USD after conversion than to pay for a Canadian one even if you're in Canada most of the time. For us talk and text, freedom of by far the best. $5 addon for unlimited minutes USA talking from Canada...

[@daishi15]

I love Cricket Core for $25

[@raulakh123]

try a new fonus mobile and say bye bye to Canadian telco's

[@denisepiktetov4540]

EU plans are 5-10 EUR for 100Gb!

[@spmarket4188]

everything in canada is a rip off. its so expensive to live here and you get nothing in return but the control and the cold...

[@daishi15]

Rogers Bell Telus

[@daishi15]

Verizon AT&T T-Mobile

[@stupidagface1]

Lived in the US for a year. Still have that same unlimited everything north america plan 3 years later while living in canada. $45 a month from one of the biggest providers in the US

[@angryaardvark2124]

What network? ATT?

[@aranzarowski6508]

I hope the mandatory 5G change over don't scew things up for you like they did for me.

[@aloevera7720]

can you tell us what provider you use?

[@stupidagface1]

@@aloevera7720 at&t

[@robinnguyen7394]

sorry currently Canada is just that more expensive than usa. it becoming such laughing joke now. i completed my excel with calculation

[@vividcupcake9260]

I pay $80 a month for unlimited data 😢

[@vikhdez9306]

which carrier bro?

[@vividcupcake9260]

@@vikhdez9306 Rogers

[@hershogwhite]

I got five or six friends that went to the US and got cell phone plans and let me tell you it's a lot faster than 2g. I'm telling you this is bullcrap. They love it and it's only less than $30 a month. Unlimited talk, unlimited tax and data

[@sylviegroleau4027]

Téléphonie cellulaire américains. Américains veut dire du continent. L'Amérique n'est pas un seul pays, mais 35. Rememebr: when you say the word "american" - look on any globe and / or map. You will see that America is a group of 35 countries, with 3 subdivisions (North, Centreal and South) and should never be used by anyone to describe only the United States. If they want to do this, that is their business, they do not have any different maps nor globes then the rest of the world...

[@CanadianCarpinHolidays]

USA has more people....that's why is cheaper....

[@shauncameron8390]

And more competition.

[@sabmultani669]

Canada population is 37 million and usa population is 350 million. Thats why Canadians have to pay more.

[@shauncameron8390]

Also there are more trade restrictions within Canada.

[@SmallSmartDecicions]

Can I be the first to say you're gorgeous

[@Topaz2022]

Why would anyone want something that is destroying us? And we are paying for it ro boot. Has humanity lost her mind?

[@Michael_Livingstone]

As a Canadian, I am VERY picky about using data on my phone as it isn’t cheap. We also pay a lot in income taxes to makeup for the “free” healthcare. This is why we love shopping in the United States as stuff is just plain cheap there. I’d love to move to the USA and be done with paying out the ass for everything but immigrating to the United States isn’t something you can do on the fly. Oh well.

[@ajpthequeen]

You have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about! Moving to the US? Good luck becoming bankrupt if you get into any sort of health issues. Our taxes aren’t higher than the us. I lived in NY for a decade and between the different taxes over 50% of our income went to taxes and we still had to pay over $900 per month for medical insurance. You deserve to live in the us! Maybe it’ll give you a clue

[@MooseBluewin]

hope Trudeau and supporters can hear this

[@user-oi4ke7us3l]

ripoff everything in Canada

[@CarLoverPhotography]

What the fuk 🇨🇦

[@jschroeder262]

That was a long video to give nothing. Your title is misleading and wasted my precious time.

[@tenzinrigdol8353]

The price cancels out when you add free healthcare, free childcare subsidies and cheap university tuition.

[@stupidagface1]

Shudup. Let us vent about phones

[@shauncameron8390]

Free but limited healthcare. Only if you live in Quebec. But barely worth the ink the diplomas are printed with.

[@ericb.9894]

What exacty is the purpose of this video?? dont people know prices for cell phones in Canada are the highest in the world. Total waste of time, and no useful info.

[@DarthVader-eg9jm]

this is too wordy.

[@dutchman2506]

I'm Canadian, my plan is ad AT&T as I'm 4 days in the States. (Trucker) You can have a unlimited plan in Canada but you Still have to pay 12 buck roaming PER DAY,yea you hear me correctly 12 bucks a day if you are in the States, talking about ridiculous

[@ajithansivakumaran3630]

What was the point of this video? Just wasted my time

[@captainmajor1428]

I would like to have watch the whole video 🤔but I couldn't get it to download😂 30 minutes later it was still downloading 🤣if you come to Canada expecting phone service you can forget about it 🙄because you can't afford it 🤑🙃you pay $50 to your provider for two days worth of service then you have to go back and pay for another two days of service 🤪do the math🤑 if you want to communicate with each other we have to use 2-way radios 😜even though the technology is there we can't have any🤫😶 I think our prime minister Justin Trudeaus plan is to hold us all back so the rest of the third world countries can catch up 🤪they may be catching up or we may be falling back 🙃but the end result is we finish last🙃 apparently having a telecommunications🦊 conglomerate 🏴‍☠️running the country is a good thing🤐 although nobody voted for it 😉they just pretty much do whatever they want around here 🤫Canadians don't make any noise 🤐they're not like that😬

[@hockeycardrookiesslimscrap1588]

I’m Canadian I got the best plan unlimited call/text in Canada 25gigs unlimited speed in than it slows Rogers’s is good I pay 60$ for this plan loyalty customer been 15 years with them