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Telus appears to have good 3G and some 4G coverage (search for G0E
) of Gaspé and the roads leading around the outside of the peninsula, but no provider appears to have any significant coverage of the provincial park or most of the interior.
I checked several other providers, but coverage was even worse.
If I had to have a phone, I would go with Telus, but I wouldn't expect it to work most of the time.
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In the United States and Canada there are two different, and incompatible, cell phone technologies: GSM (which uses SIM cards) and CDMA (which does not). Both are being replaced by LTE (a SIM-card-based technology often marketed as "4G", although its adherence to the 4G standard is limited and thus its use of the term "4G" is controversial).
Without knowing your itinerary and more details about your phone and the plan it currently works with, it is impossible to know with certainty whether you would have the cell coverage you need in an area as isolated as the Gaspésie Peninsula -- but I think the safest and most likely guess is that your phone would not work there (likely not at all, and especially not on the Bell network).
If your goal is to know definitively whether your cell phone would work, I recommended that you call Bell Wireless and tell them that you are not a customer, but want to know if you will be able to roam on their network. Make sure that they understand you have a GSM phone. I think the answer will be no; if so ... ask if they know of any GSM-based cell service in Québec so that you can call that company and pose the same question. (If the initial representative doesn't know anything about this, you might ask if a supervisor would have more information.)
But alternately, if your goal is simply to have a working cell phone, I recommend a different strategy: