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This. A bunch of Canadian government interactions also use SMS as 2FA and I live abroad for months every year. At least most tech companies let you switch to an authenticator app...

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But you still get SMS when roaming?

Not very reliably, usually.

Canadian roaming rates are so utterly shit the SIM card comes out the second I'm on the plane. It's like $15 per day to roam in the EU. Not per month, per day, let that sink in... I can get a plan in Europe for 30€ month that puts my Canadian plan ($90/month) to shame...

I'm not paying $450/month to roam...

> Canadian roaming rates are so utterly shit the SIM card comes out the second I'm on the plane. It's like $15 per day to roam in the EU. Not per month, per day, let that sink in... I can get a plan in Europe for 30€ month that puts my Canadian plan ($90/month) to shame...

That's cheap. My Austrian provider charges 1 Euro per 100 KB when roaming in Canada (no - that's not a typo). So for 10 GB that's a cheap 100k Euros.

Ok, I see. That's nuts. I've been to Canada with my EU SIM but apart from each SMS costing few cents instead of being free if didn't cost me much to keep using 2fa.

I currently have plan for 22€ that gives me unlimited everything in my country (maybe there is cap to minutes but I don't call much) including unlimited data + 10gb data in EU.

I remember that in Canada I was paying through the nose for some basic pathetic plan though.

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