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Where are you going to be in Canada? Are you going to travel? Some areas in Canada have better coverage from certain cellular phone carriers. You might need to buy another phone, unless you can live with 2G from Rogers towers. What do you have for a phone now?

I think you are going to be paying around $100 for 3 months no matter what carrier you go with. Because you will be in Regina, you are probably better off getting a plan from a provider that uses the Bell/Telus tower. Here is the coverage map

http://www.virginmobile.ca/en/.....tance.html

Speakout uses Rogers towers. In comparison, here is the Rogers coverage map.
http://www.rogers.com/web/cont.....ss_network

Now I would love to recommend Speakout, because it offers unlimited data, but it's voice options are pretty costly. You have to pay a pretty penny for a phone you do not want, or go through hoops to get a SIM. It is not really worth the hassle for 3 months.

I ended up deciding on recommending the Virgin Smartphone data plan. http://www.virginmobile.ca/en/.....mmary.html For $25, you get 512 megabytes of data. Not much, but it is good enough for your GPS, and the odd web page. Apparently, if you go over the limit the first 2 months, you do not get penalized.

For voice, Virgin offers an Unlimited Local Incoming Calls plan for $10. http://www.virginmobile.ca/en/features/ if you want to make calls, use something like dingaling.ca, where on your web browser, you enter the number you're calling from (your cell with unlimited incoming), and any number you want to call in North America. All for 1 cent a minute.

So for $35 a month. you have pretty much everything you need for 3 months. A Virgin SIM costs $5. The only gotchas is to give 1 month in advance cancellation notice. If asked why you quit, say their data allowance is too chintzy. Don't say you are only going to be here 3 months. Canadian cell phone companies treat short timers differently.

Guys,

Since this forum is called "7-Eleven Rates and Plans", please keep the discussion to 7-Eleven/SpeakOut. If you would like to discuss other carriers, please keep or start that discussion in the "Other Carriers" forum.

Thanks!