We bought a PANTECH C3 Pay As You Go Wireless Phone from The Source for our daughter for Christmas.
With an instant $50 off and a $50 mail-in rebate we will pay about $45 + tax for the phone.
It comes with $10 of Rogers airtime.

Our daughter lives in Toronto and wants the phone only for emergency calls or as a portable pay phone when none are available.
She's not a big phone user so likely won't run up big bills. She doesn't even really want to give the number out to friends.
She travels occasionally to other Canadian cities and once on a while the USA but again would only use the phone there as an emergency phone.

We're getting her this phone as a convenience and a safety measure.
We don't want to saddle her with something that will end up costing her a lot of money!

We were going to buy the $100 Rogers voucher – good for 365 days.
Now we're looking at your info about the 7-11 $100 card and we're pretty confused.
We've never used a cell phone ourselves, don't understand how the rates work and need help figuring out which would be the best deal and what the pros and cons are.

Does anyone have any advice for us?
Rogers vs 7-11?
$100 cards vs shorter periods??
Payment Plans?????

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks!
Donna in Nova Scotia

Thanks so much for your help lorac!
Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner.

This really a great, helpful site.
Thanks for taking the time to post all this information.

Donna )