If you don't mind jumping through hoops, what you can do is just set up the watch on bell. You'll have to do a bit of digging, but the basic steps are:
- call bell and create a web account with them. You don't need to actually buy services with them yet.
- find someone you know who uses bell, and ask to borrow their sim card for a few minutes. Your phone needs to be on the bell network to buy a stand-alone watch plan, but you don't need your phone to be on bell to maintain the plan.
- put the bell sim card in your phone, reboot
- pair the watch to your phone and tell it you want to set up the watch as a Family Setup watch
- when it asks you about a cell plan for the watch, tell it to buy a new $10 plan from bell, login using your bell credentials
- buy the plan, receive a phone number for the watch.
- make sure watch is working
- swap your rogers sim card back in and reboot.
I did this, and it works just fine. I paid $10/month to Bell for my kids watch, and my phone was on Rogers and it maintained the watch just fine. Did it until we got my kid a phone, at which time we cancelled bell and ported her number to her rogers phone, and re-paired her watch to her phone (without cell service).
Note, if this interests you, grab the steps from this message fast, as the Rogers Police are likely to delete this message since I discuss using Bell to game the system.
Paul
