Grab and go plus.com an American company selling cellular subscriptions in Quebec.
Grab and go plus.com may be an American company but they’re doing business in Montreal, Quebec. I wonder why they have not a one review???
I was stunned: I had ordered a Lucky Mobile prepaid SIM phone card via amazon.ca, and was expecting a $25 card, not a card from Grab and Go Plus.
So it’s not a “prepaid” card—well, for the first month it is—but then they force you into a monthly plan— which is what all Canadian cellular providers want you to do…now. Except for a form)any called Good2Go.
As a Buddhist monk, my needs are not comparable to those of a householder, a business guy, or student at uni. I have lived many decades without a cell phone, and I am happier for it. In fact I only need one because my bank is telling me they will no longer send verification codes to my email. Sadly, Canadian banks are quite old-fashioned so they have no alternative means of sending codes. They won’t accept VOIP phones (but they think SMS is safe?) and BMO has no alternative technologies. In the US, banks routinely use Yubikey, a secure hardware that could easily handle these sorts of transactions.
Canada has already stopped using prepaid cards in the manner we have used them for the past two decades. They will still be sold—but won’t be used in the same manner, instead, they are now part of the “subscription trap”. This is another arm-twisting venture Canadian cellular entities are using—forcing— on its customers, just like the banks are doing when they decided to alter their verification code guidelines, forcing us to have to buy cell phones if we want to use online banking.