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What's the best way to prevent data overages while traveling to Canada?

zimmb

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Hi guys i am new here . I will be traveling to Canada this summer and i have heard horror stories on data overages when traveling. what is the best way to do this to prevent overages i use a lot of data. thanks for the help
 

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Purchasing a pre-paid plan from either your current carrier or a Canadian carrier is an option to consider.
 

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Hi guys i am new here . I will be traveling to Canada this summer and i have heard horror stories on data overages when traveling. what is the best way to do this to prevent overages i use a lot of data. thanks for the help

Whenever I travel from Canada to the US, I purchase a roaming package from my home carrier. The horror stories hold true on both sides of the border. Guess the carriers have to get richer somehow?
 

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they do offer 800mb of data for $120. i am just nervous i will go over that overages is $2.05 a mb

I know. It's crazy! What I normally do is use WiFi most of the time then just the phone data when I really need it. Luckily for me that's not too often as most places I go, hotels, restraunts, etc have WiFi. I have Garmin onboard maps loaded, so GPS routing is free.