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I have a question... I use Skype to call my fiance in Canada, but I want to find some way to have unlimited minutes to call him on my cell phone.

I have Cintular, and I'm willing to pay a monthly fee.. but I don't know if this is possible. I don't want to pay the 19 cents a minute bull-sh*t.

Does anyone have this with their cell phone provider?

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I am not sure if it will be much help, but comcast has an unlimited canada/US calling for land lines, as well as Rogers in Canada.

For cell phones, I would try getting one of the family plans.... (but I don't know with who.)

Sorry not more help :(

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I used a calling card from comfi.com-Cardinal is the name of the specific card. it still costs minutes but at least its not the cell companies 20cents/min. I just tried to call after 9 or on the weekend. When I switched to one of the my friends plans (unlimited calls to 5 numbers) I just used the calling card # as one of my friends. it's about 1.5cents/min if you use the regular number rather than the toll free number

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Verizon wireless has a Nationwide plus Canada plan. Free long distance calling to anywhere in the US and Canada. http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/c...t&catId=930 We have been on it for a long time. No roaming charges in either country. I think they now offer it in a family plan so you could get one for your fiance in Canada too.

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Verizon wireless has a Nationwide plus Canada plan. Free long distance calling to anywhere in the US and Canada. http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/c...t&catId=930 We have been on it for a long time. No roaming charges in either country. I think they now offer it in a family plan so you could get one for your fiance in Canada too.

This is what I use to call my parents. I also have a land line and I have vonage for that. Its 3c a minute and $9 a month. fairly reasonable.

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we have Vonage and we pay about 25 bucks a month but we can call anywhere in the US, Canada and Mexico.... plus we get all he cool features for no extra charge...

before I moved here we found a really good phone card that gave us lots of minutes.... it was called Liberty...

I bought it from here... I am not sure if it is still as good as when we used it...

http://www.thephonecardstore.ca/(vzbp4z55x...productsld.aspx

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My parensts back in Sk have an international long dist program and I dont think it costs that much. So when I want to call them, I just call, let it ring twice, hang up, and they call me back. yep Im cheap,lol I see no need for me to pay an extra fee on my end when they all ready have it.

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My parensts back in Sk have an international long dist program and I dont think it costs that much. So when I want to call them, I just call, let it ring twice, hang up, and they call me back. yep Im cheap,lol I see no need for me to pay an extra fee on my end when they all ready have it.

My Sister has the plan so that's what we do too :lol:

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My parensts back in Sk have an international long dist program and I dont think it costs that much. So when I want to call them, I just call, let it ring twice, hang up, and they call me back. yep Im cheap,lol I see no need for me to pay an extra fee on my end when they all ready have it.

My Sister has the plan so that's what we do too :lol:

That is what I do too when I call my family. My parents have the unlimited plan.

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I have a Canada Unlimited plan on my home phone with BellSouth. Then, on my cell I have North American Freedom with Alltel. It's really nice. Canada is included in my normal minutes, and I don't pay roaming charges in North America. So, when I went to Kitimat (backwoods, basically), I can use my cell without issue. In fact, my cell worked better than Telus phones up there. We actually considered me getting a second phone on the plan so I could send it to Lindsay to use. Then she would have a Baton Rouge cell when she moved here.

Both of my plans are very affordable and well worth it. I'm going to switch to a different cell plan when she gets here, but I'll keep it on the landline for her to call friends and family.

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I have Charter cable for tv, internet and phone. I can call anywhere in Canada any time any day and it's FREE. When I added this phone service my monthly cost actually went down as it was a new package deal. I'm sure there will be more and more cable companies offering this phone service in more and more areas. It's awesome!

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Darn. Now I want a pet to name Toque. :angry:

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