I'd say Petro Canada gets the highest rating - their cards don't expire for at least 6 MONTHS. For those people who only rarely use their phones, 30-60 days is too short and a waste of $. If you use it more regularly, you're better off getting on a plan.

If you need cheap prepaid service, this is the one for you. Get a petro points card at the same time and buy your gas there also, no more buying with cash just use your petro points.

I bought a phone a month and half ago but stopped working. Petro-Canada does not care and told me to contact Nokia. It seems, for them, selling phone is just like selling gas. The worst part is the Nokia. They told me to send the phone at my expense. It is under warranty.

Does anyone know if you get charged to check your voice mail?

Is there a way to do it from a land-line?

Martin, According to another forum, yes you would get charged for checking your messages from your cell phone. However, if u turn the phone off and check messages from a land line there is no charge.

1000 minutes for 50 $ is a good deal when you compare against other prepaid plan such as telus.

Get your math right its 250 minutes for 50$

Great option
Easily the best price I could find. More than enough features. You can check you messages from a land phone too.

It is made known on the terms and conditions that if the phone is defective or needs to be fixed you must contact the manufacturer.

I switch my original telephone number from a "big" phone company to Petro-Canada. I have good service and good basic Nokia 2760 phone for the price I payed.

I HAVE PURCHASED A NOKIA 2630 PHONE 6 MONTHS AGO. I DON'T USE THE CELL A LOT BUT ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO JUDGE IT . I DO NOT LIKE A MONTHY PLAN BECAUSE IAM PAYING FOR SOMETHING I AM NOT USING , OTHER PAY AS YOU GO DO NOT ALLOW ENOUGH TIME TO USE THE MINUTES I PUT AN AND IF YOU DO NOT REMEMBER TO TOP UP THE ACCOUNT YOU LOOSE THEM . LIST PHONES RECEPTION IS AWESOME. I HAVE YET TO FIND A PHONE THAT GETS A RECEPTION AT HOME WITH ANY OTHER PROVIDER. THERE HAS BEEN NO WAITED MINNUTES AND HAVE FOUND THAT I AM ABLE TO USE THE PHONE MORE FREQUENTLY, HOWEVER I WISH IT COULD BE TOPPED UP ON-LINE

Almost any phone purchased from Rogers or Fido can be used with Petro Canada Mobility. Buy the cheapest PCM phone. Take out SIM card. Insert into Rogers / Fido phone of your liking.

perfect

Switched from Telu$ to Petrocan wireless, saving over $100 a month might not sound like much, but it adds up over a year! - and the service works fine. Phone itself kind of sucks, but I can get an unlocked or rogers phone on ebay or craigslist and plug in my sim card... I do miss roaming in the US, so I'll have to grab a cheap ToGo phone while I'm there next time, which won't even cost me 1 months of savings.

If you want a basic "Throw-Away" ...
The Nokia 1112 and petro-canada are it !
Too bad...the old ones are hard to get.
Best battery life of any phone I had.
User friendly...text able...
great high visibility screen...
Nokia...ruined this phone with all...
the new "fancy-crap"... NOKIA 26xx...
[Except battery life...All are great !]

They just changed their rates effective March 3 2009 ! Now you pay 25 cents per minute local calls and 45 cents long distance !!! I'm thinking about getting rid of Petro-Canada !!!

I have this phone for six months now and it was great on price (I do not use it too often) and the (least expensive) Nokia phone is much better than other more expensive ones I have had.

Having said that, the new price (25 cents/min) AND the shorter validity period (120 days for $25) narrows the competitive gap it had vs. Fido, for example. With these rules, I would not have switched from Fido, not much difference ($15 over 4 months, unless if Fido raised their prices lately).

Forget about this company. They have just higher all their prices. For local calls; from 0.20 to 0.25 (35%). For long distance calls; from 0.30 to 0.45 (50%). They have also lowered days of service for many amount.

Good information Prav! I was looking for exactly that, thanks. Euro and Asian styles. No websurfing with Petro plans but at least we can get better phones than the old stuff Petro is offering.

But $15 expires after 30 days unless one buys more time....booooo, it's always about coercing more money out of us.

Peace!

Is there a way to use the sim card from my petro canada cell phone with a unlocked rogers phone??
But still play the same as the prepay petro canada plan.

I have no problems with PetroCan PAYG plan as far their efficiency goes. But the information provided above is outdated; and right you are, those who remarked the rates had been adjusted upwards as of March, 2009. So when you sign on, you need to understand what you are getting into.

Petro Canada was great for people who use their phones rarely, as you could just top up every 6 months. Now they have changed this, and they are no better than their competitors. I am very disappointed and will be ditching them when my service expires.

Bought a phone 5 mths ago ,,,great plan/6 mths before expiration.Just went to buy more minutes today .SURPRISE !
only 4 mths now before expiration date GUESS WHAT ? the price has gone up from $20. to $25.
So ,the deal was good at first but now !!!
Don't know !
This phone is only use for emergency in a building that is use 2 times a week .So we rarely use it .I wish we could have the 6 mths expiration date as before.

Better to use speakout wireless from 7-11 their rates and expiry times are better than petro-canada mobility.

You have to spend $100. with petro to get 365 days before the airtime expires...with 711 ALL their airtime lasts 365 days.I use the 711-Speakout prepaid service when in the US,and the cost is .15 cents per minute that covers all of the US,and .39 per minute to Canada..We are being ripped off here!!

Is there anyway I can get my Call history or statements which I have called. I am told that to go to call history from Cellphone. But when click for Callhistory it suddently disappears. Why my callhistory want to keep it as a secret? I am legally entitiled to view my statements.Please send my statements to my email address.

All airtime expiry is 365 days. Rate is 20c/min. Use their phone or your unlocked GSM phone. Downside is no data service, no roaming, costly long distance.

It is okay IF you don't need to all customer support. Calling a customer support is nightmare. First, their phone has VERY poor quality - low volume and breaking up sounds. I have to call 4 times and all of time had same problem. Actual problem with buying air time online and they don't how to handle and keep sending me back and forth and in the middle of forwarding or conversation. I think that is related to poor phone quality and that is why I had to call 4 times.

First, it is 0.25 $ a minute for local calls. no other fees, all else is included (voicemail, call id, etc.)

And every time I called their customer service, it was great. Guess I was lucky 5 times in a row !

I have it for emergencies, and it never costs me more than 8$ a month ! Ask other companies for such a deal...

I got a Nokia 2680 phone with Petro Canada a month ago. So far the service is good, and the phone itself was a good deal ($60.00 with 50 airtime purchase-6 month expiration). BUT one problem is their website claims the 2680 has VOICE COMMAND DIALING. IT DOES NOT. Nokia's own website verifies it does not, and my playing around with the phone for hours confirmed there is no such function. I notified Petro Canada of this factual error in their website 2 weeks ago. They replied and said the web department was aware of the problem. 2 weeks later the error is still there. I mean hello...how long does it take to delete 2 lines of text in your website? Should not take more than a few minutes to delete the text, and reupload the updated file. DUH.

new phone; battery discharges in less than ten hours without using the phone; will use for resume responses only!

I always liked Telus Mobility but funny how they now want 800 deposit and a few months ago it was a thousand dollar and a while ago I got cut off from pay go from them I have not had a monthly billing from them since 1990s and still wont let me a monthly phone and cuts my pay go off now i had virgin mobile as well I so so liked them and also had solo as well. and bell and rogers Rogers cut me off as well on pay go.

People complaining about price and expiry changes should keep in mind that it's still cheaper. I am going to get the $100 for 365 days plan (440 minutes total) and top it off when I need to. If I don't use it very often, 100 dollars for a whole year sounds pretty good to me.

The customer service is the worst. There's no notification of the credit expiration. You can't return the point card even they cancelled your service.

I ended up getting a new Iphone 3gs very cheap it was not activated and I didn't want to get locked into a contract, I live in an area where Iphone does nto work. I bought the cheapest phone, activated it, took the SIM card out and put it into the Iphone voila pay as you go Iphone, no 3G stuff but just need to find WiFi connection and your good to go, my phone was Rogers so didn't even have to unlock it. $100 for year cheap, around $8 a month for Iphone pretty good.