Both 7-11 and Petrocanada offer a prepaid sim card service for unlocked phone. Card about 20 bucks, buy time as you need it, no contract. Pretty well same coverage as the big carriers. I'm using it on a  Sonim XP3 (grrr rugged!) and it is working out fine.

alistair

On 2012-12-14, at 12:25 PM, neil n wrote:

> Nice report!
> 
> Not sure if Rogers et al up offer a prepaid monthly plan or similar,
> but wouldn't that, and a new SIM card be obtainable w/o a Canadian
> address?  (hopefully I'm not misunderstanding how the tech works)
> 
> The ShureFlo is a nice pump upgrade. I also found a foot switch to be
> of great use too.
> 
> Thanks for the report on the upgrades.
> 
> Neil.