I had a bad experience with my AT&T GoPhone on my last trip to Montreal in late September. It seems that I could send text messages but not receive them. I didn't realize that I wasn't receiving txts for several days, which greatly interfered with setting up dates......grrrr, I had the $45/month GoPhone plan which was supposed to include Canada text messaging at 25cents per msg sent and 20 cents for every msg received.. It had worked fine on my previous trip to Montreal in July, As soon as I crossed the border back into the USA, suddenly I got like 27 accumulated text messages from agencies and indys.....grrrrrrr.... I visited the AT&T store where I bought the phone and they didn't have a clue what the problem was. I then went onto the AT&T Community Forum and the company expert there was stumped also. I had to show him the web page that described Canadian roaming. BTW Rogers provides roaming service to AT&T phones in Canada....I concluded that Rogers had changed their support of AT&T and didn't tell anyone... anyone else have a similar recent experience?
I'm now planning my next Montreal trip for late December, and I want to get cellphone txting working properly before I go. Anyone have some new recommendations? I'm kinda leaning towards dropping the GoPhone and getting a cheap T-Mobile smartphone.