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What are Bell Mobility’s current pay-per-use rates?

If you go over the usage included in your rate plan, add-on or data feature, you’ll be charged pay-per use rates. Log in to MyBell to check the pay-per-use rates for your plan and add-ons. If no rate is shown, then the rates below apply.


Unless otherwise stated in your rate plan or add-on, airtime is rounded up to the nearest minute, data usage is rounded up to the nearest kilobyte and incoming and outgoing text messages are counted (with some exceptions).


Remember that pay-per-use charges will change over time, so check back prior to using a pay-per-use service to ensure you are looking at the most current rates.

Pay-per-use service Pay-per-use Current rate1
(unless otherwise stated in your rate plan or add-on)
Minutes (incoming and outgoing calls) Anytime local minutes

$0.75 per minute

Nationwide long distance minutes (Canada to Canada) $0.75 per minute
Canada to U.S. long distance minutes $0.75 per minute
Canada to international long distance minutes Varies by country (PDF 291.92 KB)
U.S. roaming minutes $1.99 per minute
International roaming minutes Varies by country
Data Data within Canada
Data Amount Cost per amount
0-100MB $13
101-200MB $26
201-300MB $39
301-400MB $52
401-500MB $65
501-600MB $78
601-700MB $91
701-800MB $104
800+MB $0.15/MB
Data within the U.S. $6.00 per megabyte
International roaming data Varies by country
Messaging
(sent and received messages)2
Standard text messages (Canada to Canada) $0.30 per text
Standard text messages from Canada to the U.S.

$0.40 per sent text message

$0.30 per received text message

Standard text messages within the U.S. $0.99 per sent text message

$0.20 per received text message (included with a domestic text messaging plan or U.S roaming text messaging offer)

Standard text messages from Canada to other countries
$0.40 per sent or received text message
Standard text messages while abroad $0.99 per sent text message

$0.20 per received text message (included with a domestic text messaging plan or international roaming text messaging offer)

See coverage availability by country
Standard text messages to a landline $0.30 per message sent
Picture or video messages (Canada to Canada) $0.50 per multimedia message
Picture or video messages (Canada to U.S.) $0.50 per multimedia message
Picture or video messages within the U.S. $0.50 per sent or received message + data roaming
Picture or video messages while abroad $0.50 per sent or received message + data roaming
See coverage availability by country

(1) Subject to change over time. Some exceptions apply. Applicable taxes extra.

(2) Standard text messages exclude premium text messages, third party alerts or content, messages interacting with promotions or contests, dial-up messages and messages sent/received with an instant messaging application. Once subscribed to a premium service, you will be billed at a premium rate outside of your text messaging bundle, either as a one-time fee or a recurring charge depending on the program. See bell.ca/premiumtexts Picture/Video Messages.