And we haven't touched on the FCC's power either. If the CRTC and the FCC start discussing this, change is imminent and will be swift. Your telcos can easily complain about AT&T infiltrating Canadian telco territory by illegally selling unlicensed access to Canadians, and demand that the CRTC intervene if they see enough usage bleeding into their roaming reports.

To properly appreciate my point you need to understand what powers the FCC (US) and the CRTC (Canada) has in their respective countries. You can't 'rally' or 'protest' against the Canadian telecom sector by attracting more Canadians to use plans from other countries in extended roaming mode. This is NOT how the telco industry works. The more people we get on board, the sooner we should see some change in our national industry. I wonder though - did you order the SIM through the AT&T Prepaid checkout, where you first go to BYOD and then select a plan? You managed to get your CC to be accepted? Was there a spot for Postal Code? How long ago? Thank you very much for replying to this, I was hoping to snag a fellow Canadian here for an answer, but I did not imagine it would happen within 24 hours! This makes me feel 100% more confident now about making the purchase, whether it's through AT&T's website (if they changed it) or from ordering the SIM via Amazon/eBay. I wonder if it's possible they changed the checkout page to accept a Canadian address? When I tried to checkout with my credit card, there was only a 'Zip Code' space, and trying to cram my postal code in there, even without the space, just was not working and since my address needs to match my card, my card just kept rejecting no matter what I tried (I tried to put in the zip code of my US forwarding address for example) :( Now, this was a few weeks ago, and I haven't tried since.

Can't be much worse than my blind spot apartment right now, where I have to stand on my head in order to get the wifi signal (it's a shared wifi for the entire complex coming from 2 router access points)

I only care about the data anyways, so if the reception is fine there. (She also told me if it was any consolation, my credit card would work fine through the prepaid portal to top up my balance once I activated a plan - D: ) Basically I also confirmed with her that it was acceptable as a Canadian to use the plans as 'local' plans and she confirmed we are absolutely welcome. She offered of course that I could drive down to the US, and also mentioned if I could get my hands on an AT&T gift card, that would work too. I did speak to an AT&T rep (only about trying to get my credit card to work on the 'choose your plan' checkout - nothing beyond that) and not only did the rep take out so much of her time to try and help this odd-ball Canadian figure out how to get a SIM card over here - they were extremely apologetic about it not working.

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