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spunkydude
Jun 29th, 2009, 01:58 PM
Rogers live customer support does not exist and they have not responded to my email,so here is my question.
Can I roam overseas aumatically on my rogers gsm phone?
or does roaming have to be enabled?

Thanks for your help
Hairball
Jun 29th, 2009, 02:58 PM
You might have to call in to get it activated.

It'll also cost a fortune to roam, probably around $2 CAD a minute.
GemInite
Jun 29th, 2009, 06:44 PM
you do not need to activate roaming.

If you have a gsm world phone, it will automatically pick up the local carrier.

Costs are roughly about $2 a minute
emocean
Jun 29th, 2009, 10:38 PM
If you're staying in one country most of the time, and you don't need to have your current phone number, consider picking up a local carrier sim card when you're away. Much cheaper, when I was in Tanzania last year it cost me about 25c/min to call back home to Canada, and about 10c/txt back to Canada. It would have been about 10x as much if I used my Fido sim.

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Jay1234
Jun 30th, 2009, 07:40 AM
you do not need to activate roaming.

If you have a gsm world phone, it will automatically pick up the local carrier.

Costs are roughly about $2 a minute

Not true, you have to have international roaming activated. Cost is ~$2 per minute depending on country though.
Jay1234
Jun 30th, 2009, 07:41 AM
If you're staying in one country most of the time, and you don't need to have your current phone number, consider picking up a local carrier sim card when you're away. Much cheaper, when I was in Tanzania last year it cost me about 25c/min to call back home to Canada, and about 10c/txt back to Canada. It would have been about 10x as much if I used my Fido sim.

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You need to have an unlocked phone for this to work, if you do not have an unlocked phone, any SIM card other then your carrier's will not work.
spunkydude
Jun 30th, 2009, 07:49 PM
Thanks everyone,I was able to talk to Rogers and you are correct no problem to roam.
My phone is a world phone so no problem for sim cards,just trying to stay in touch with home.
Tks again.
Jay1234
Jun 30th, 2009, 09:58 PM
Thanks everyone,I was able to talk to Rogers and you are correct no problem to roam.
My phone is a world phone so no problem for sim cards,just trying to stay in touch with home.
Tks again.

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