Are you moving from the United States to Canada, and wondering if you can bring your cell phone and use it on a Canadian network? The answer is YES, and it was super easy for us. Here’s what we did.
Contacted a Canadian Carrier
I started by calling a carrier in Canada directly (Telus…), to see if we could just bring our phones and use them on their network. The answer was yes! They let me know all we had to do was unlock our phones, then bring them into a store when we were ready to make the switch.
Unlocked Our Phones
AT&T was our carrier, and at the time we left the United States we had to request the unlock codes from them, which was easy. They were sent by email, but it’s even easier now. I think you can unlock your phone yourself if you have an AT&T account online.
Service With a Canadian Carrier
After our two weeks in quarantine (end of 2020), one of the first things we did was to go switch our phones over. We’d done our research and since Telus provided the best coverage for the area where we moved, we headed there.
It was super easy after that. Once we chose the plan we wanted and got new phone numbers, it was a matter of swapping the existing AT&T SIM card for the new Telus one and we were good to go.
