Just called Verizon Wireless to check on the most recent plan available for voice calling in Canada. For an additional $20, you can add Canada to your existing voice plan. However, there are some hitches, or rather, rules. Your purchased minutes will be prorated for Canadian use if you activate in the middle of your billing month. Its actually safer to back bill and pay the $20 for the entire month to prevent the possibility that you might exceed the pro-rated minutes and go into costly overtime. We currently have the 700 minute family plan. We have two phones that share 700 peak minutes. Now when we added the $20 Canadian option, the Canadian calling is using our 700 peak minutes. Adding the Canadian plan adds two additional buckets of minutes - 1000 min Verizon mobile to mobile - In the US any call to another Verizon mobile phone is not chargeable to our 700 purchased minutes. But when in Canada, it will come out of this 1000 min bucket. Nights and Weekends - In the US, any call to any phone in the US is not chargeable to our 700 purchased minutes. . But when in Canada, it will come out of this 1000 min bucket. Now, if it's a Saturday and you call another Verizon phone user, it will be taken out of the mobile to mobile bucket. Celeste's phone is an older one and needed to be updated for roaming. I think it was *28 to update its firmware for roaming in Canada. My DROID receives updates automagically. Bottom line: For us Verizon users, its always better to talk mobile to another Verizon mobile phone but keep an eye on the min. used in that category. Its not unlimited anymore. And other calls are always better after 9:01pm and on weekends. Now, data plans for smart phones and Verizon Broadband users (such as MiFi) are completely different. Its WAY expensive. Turn them off at least 10 miles before you get to the Canadian border. Don't even use them in Canada unless you have barrels of money to burn. R.