Best place to rent a mobile phone in Vancouver, B.C (My Verizon rates are too steep)

I have Verizon Wireless mobile phone service in the United States.
I will be spending a week in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Verizon charges .
69 cents a minute for all calls while roaming in Canada and another 49
cents a minute for calls to a US #.
This is going to quickly add up for me.
Can anyone recommend a place in Vancouver or mail order rental service
that offers weekly mobile phone rentals at practical rates? It doesn't
pay for me to pay more than $30 for basic rental fees for the week
(usage not included).
Thanks

<techman41973m> wrote in message
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>I have Verizon Wireless mobile phone service in the United States.
> I will be spending a week in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Verizon charges .
> 69 cents a minute for all calls while roaming in Canada and another 49
> cents a minute for calls to a US #.
> This is going to quickly add up for me.
> Can anyone recommend a place in Vancouver or mail order rental service
> that offers weekly mobile phone rentals at practical rates? It doesn't
> pay for me to pay more than $30 for basic rental fees for the week
> (usage not included).
> Thanks
>

Buy a phone card. About 3 cents a minute.

On May 19, 8:21 pm, techman41...m wrote:
> I have Verizon Wireless mobile phone service in the United States.
> I will be spending a week in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Verizon charges .
> 69 cents a minute for all calls while roaming in Canada and another 49
> cents a minute for calls to a US #.
> This is going to quickly add up for me.
> Can anyone recommend a place in Vancouver or mail order rental service
> that offers weekly mobile phone rentals at practical rates? It doesn't
> pay for me to pay more than $30 for basic rental fees for the week
> (usage not included).
> Thanks


How about getting a prepaid sim card from Rogers?

How much do Canadian pay phones charge to call a toll free #, to
connect to onesuite?
Thanks


>
> The prepaid GSM cards and phone rentals are no great deal for Canada. I
> was in Canada for a week earlier this year. I just used my Verizon phone
> very sparingly. If I got an incoming call from a number I recognized,
> and I was near a landline, I didn't answer it, I called them back using
> OneSuite, which is like 3¢ a minute. I made no calls from the phone for
> that week, and I think I had only two minutes of charges for received calls.