Has this Dog Changed its "Spots" ("No Roaming on FIDO")

[stufried]

FIDO's website now says no roaming on the FIDO network (Except on Dryden or ICE). You do, however, pay long distance. Does this mean that every inbound call when you are visiting another market has a long distance charge? Assume I have a Toronto number and am standing in Vancouver. A call to Vancouver would be local. A call to Toronto would be longdistance, but a call to my Toronto number which rings in Vancouver would be what?

[thirstyears]

Yes.
If you answer your phone in Vancouver you'd be paying LD... unless you have a canada-wide calling plan (or the $10 unl LD add-on, which you could add in advance of your travels (& monthly billing cycle), as needed)

[facehugger]

This is nothing new. Nothing has changed.

To summarize:
- All current and most (but not all) old Fido plans include the expanded Rogers network. This covers 96% of the populated areas in Canada (Note: not 96% of the land mass of Canada). Even so, if you don't have the expanded network and use it, the extra charges you will incur doesn't count as "roaming" on the Rogers network. It will be 25 cents per minute billed as "expanded network usage".
- In Canada, Fido and Rogers do not cover Northwest Territories. That's where Dryden and ICE wireless come into play. If you go up there and take your Fido phone with you, Fido will let you roam on their networks, which can get expensive.
- You can still have a zoned plan with Fido such as $35 city fido, and usage out of that defined geographical area is classified as "out of zone", not as roaming.

Worst case scenario you are on a zoned plan, without long distance. You might pay 90 cents per minute, billed by the minute, and technically none of those count as "roaming".