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dealwatcher81 wrote: ↑Does 50% off beta testing plan price end after 6 months from the activation date or on Aug14 considering beta testing started on Feb 14 in southern Ontario?

It's 6 months from the date you activate

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I have a question regarding the Fizz outside of Canada and USA.

Will I be able to receive SMS and see calls while abroad? I'd love to join fizz but I'm unclear if what happens when traveling. I currently use data only esims when I travel, but I'm able to see who's calling me (I don't answer) in real time and receive sms as well. I can then call back using voip or another message app.

Can I do this with Fizz as well?

Thanks!

jdheidhe wrote: ↑I have a question regarding the Fizz outside of Canada and USA.

Will I be able to receive SMS and see calls while abroad? I'd love to join fizz but I'm unclear if what happens when traveling. I currently use data only esims when I travel, but I'm able to see who's calling me (I don't answer) in real time and receive sms as well. I can then call back using voip or another message app.

Can I do this with Fizz as well?

Thanks!

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In the Carribean and Americas, this is similiar. I have my full Canada/USA plan and then in Mexico, or other countries down south, i buy a travel data add-on from the fizz portal for "Latin America" and it's good for 90% of Caribbean. In these places, you will get SMS and Calls like normal but you won't be able to do any outgoing unless you have money in your wallet (which is also a safeguard for me). It gets a little tricky in EU or other contients i think. I was in Italy, Croatia and Greece last year and I couldn't answer calls or texts regardless of wallet amount. It was really weird with calls and i heard nothing when i answered. I basically use my VOIP.MS account with the Bria App anywhere outside North America anyways, for calls and texts over data... so I don't have extensive experience with this for Fizz in my 7 years...

there are many discussions on the fizz community forum
https://forum.fizz.ca/en/

jdheidhe wrote: ↑I have a question regarding the Fizz outside of Canada and USA.

Will I be able to receive SMS and see calls while abroad? I'd love to join fizz but I'm unclear if what happens when traveling. I currently use data only esims when I travel, but I'm able to see who's calling me (I don't answer) in real time and receive sms as well. I can then call back using voip or another message app.

Can I do this with Fizz as well?

Thanks!

I don't think you even need a data pack from Fizz to receive SMS?

https://fizz.ca/en/faq/im-travelling-ou ... ays%20free).

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Fizz BC AB MB ON intro pricing 2-60 GB Canada for $19-35

I supplemented 20gig Can/US data-only with the $20 Lucky 3gig plan. Dual SIM is awesome.

Rogers LTE is wild in Winnipeg, 700mbit+

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ericw wrote: ↑I plan to use this to supplement my $99 50GB freedom annual plan. How much does dual sim impact battery life on iphone if you have experience on this?

Not that huge TBH. I don't even notice.
I've been using dual SIMs for years.

scotsman88 wrote: ↑In the Carribean and Americas, this is similiar. I have my full Canada/USA plan and then in Mexico, or other countries down south, i buy a travel data add-on from the fizz portal for "Latin America" and it's good for 90% of Caribbean. In these places, you will get SMS and Calls like normal but you won't be able to do any outgoing unless you have money in your wallet (which is also a safeguard for me). It gets a little tricky in EU or other contients i think. I was in Italy, Croatia and Greece last year and I couldn't answer calls or texts regardless of wallet amount. It was really weird with calls and i heard nothing when i answered. I basically use my VOIP.MS account with the Bria App anywhere outside North America anyways, for calls and texts over data... so I don't have extensive experience with this for Fizz in my 7 years...

there are many discussions on the fizz community forum
https://forum.fizz.ca/en/

I was thinking about switching from freedom to fizz but the roaming part concerns me. No calling and text while abroad is nonsense I don't wanna deal with.

thatsavingsguy wrote: ↑I was thinking about switching from freedom to fizz but the roaming part concerns me. No calling and text while abroad is nonsense I don't wanna deal with.

Freedom wifi calling is definitely a differentiator, and the Fizz discount is only six months

Spouse is settling for only using WhatsApp video calling and messaging when out of Canada and US. We're already three months in our 6 month beta

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thatsavingsguy wrote: ↑I was thinking about switching from freedom to fizz but the roaming part concerns me. No calling and text while abroad is nonsense I don't wanna deal with.

yeah I guess it depends on the person and their needs. Like I said, not a big issue for me as I do everything over data/voip anyways...
I seem to remember the call roaming overseas was working when I was with videotron, so they must have different setup for fizz....

arcty5 wrote: ↑I'm in Vancouver and ever since it switched from fizz ext to fizz, my data has been dog poop. Literally constant dropped reception, spotty data etc. If this is how it's going to be moving forward, absolutely no way I'm staying on fizz past the 6 month beta.

They haven't blocked users from connecting to Fizz ext manually yet, so try that?

Spouse will be using fizz ext until we get warnings from Fizz

Myself since it's just backup data I don't really care if I get warned. For science I should just stay on fizz ext and see when I start getting warnings

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crimsona wrote: ↑
They haven't blocked users from connecting to Fizz ext manually yet, so try that?

Spouse will be using fizz ext until we get warnings from Fizz

Myself since it's just backup data I don't really care if I get warned. For science I should just stay on fizz ext and see when I start getting warnings

How do you force your phone to stay on fizz ext? I use an android phone. *Nvm found it! Good call, thanks

DerekF88346 wrote: ↑So **** annoying. Expected delivery for the SIM card was yesterday and still nothing today. Now they are saying 2-5 more business days. I waited the whole day yesterday and today for nothing. No tracking information. NO DETAILS! NOTHING

It's sent by regular Canada Post so there isn't tracking.

Over Christmas I waited ten business days, which was like two and a half weeks real time with all the holidays and weekends in between

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Fizz BC AB MB ON intro pricing 2-60 GB Canada for $19-35