US Roaming
US roaming
We've made U.S. roaming simple.
When you are on a TELUS pay monthly rate plan, your phone automatically works with most of your subscribed services in hundreds of cities within the United States.
You can also access Wireless High Speed (3G) roaming in hundreds of cities in the US for broadband-like connections to the Internet, corporate Intranets, email servers, downloads, streaming video and other multimedia applications.
Just like at home, airtime and long distance are billed in Canadian dollars, so you never have to worry about exchange rates.
Rate overview
Frequent travellers to the US should consider getting a US roaming packages for bulk savings on call roaming fees.
Airtime is 95¢/minute for local calls.
Long distance is an additional 50¢/minute.
Roaming data usage is calculated by the MB when used within 1X areas, and is prorated to the closest KB (1MB = 1024KB or approximately 1¢ per KB), and is billed in addition to your Canadian charges.
Roaming minutes, including Voice Mail access, are independent of your rate plan and are not applied towards your included or weekend minutes. Voice Mail notification is not available in all U.S. service areas.
Free local calling on your birthday is only available in Canada.
Get started
To use U.S. roaming, you need these items:
A TELUS pay monthly rate plan
You need to be on a monthly rate plan, not on a prepaid plan. Review rate plans.