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Re: DATA in Alberta Canada?
I think I’ve found at least three alternatives to the T-Mobile data passes that are a lot more cost effective. I’ll have to do some more research, but hopefully at least one of them will prove to be real. If so, it should be between 75 and 100 GB for about the same price T-Mobile is charging for 15 GB.30Views1like0CommentsRe: DATA in Alberta Canada?
Looking at Telus, they don’t seem interested in monthly prepaid plans with much data using my own phone… $55 for 10GB was the best I found. Bell MIGHT be marginally better 50GB for $50 and 75GB for $60. I’ll have to call them and see where the “gotchas” are… I found a couple “here’s how to get the best data” articles and they both pushed Phonebox, so I may have to call them and see if someone actually answers the phone...25Views0likes0CommentsRe: DATA in Alberta Canada?
We’ll be in Canada around 5 weeks, so we shouldn’t get cancelled! I found a couple sources for supposedly Canadian eSIMs (Phonebox for example) for data at fairly reasonable prices - 45GB for $65, but they have such poor reviews - more than 30% being 1 star, that I’m reluctant to trust them.29Views0likes0CommentsRe: DATA in Alberta Canada?
Thanks for the reply. I talked to T-Mobile this evening. Our phones will only have 5GB/month of hotspot data once we’re in Canada. But, they SHOULD work, just not have much data. T-Mobile has a couple data add-ons - 10-Day, 5GB, $35. And 30-day, 15GB, $50. I figure with 2 phones and the ability to buy a few $50 data passes we should be reasonably good as long as I don’t have to do any fer-real work… Everything I need for image storage, management and processing will be local in the RV, so I shouldn’t have to shove huge backups to the cloud, which will help keep the data load down...31Views2likes0CommentsDATA in Alberta Canada?
We’re going to Alberta this fall - Waterton Lakes, Banff, Jasper. We have the Magenta MAX 55+ plan which provides 40gb/mo of hotspot data on our phones. Is there ANYTHING we need to do to have our current phones work for calls, text and DATA in these locations?Solved612Views0likes8CommentsT-Mobile and being "SO MUCH better than when we had it last
Several years ago we had T-Mobile (probably a decade). And traveled. And found out it was absolutely useless anywhere in the Southwest, and most of the other places we went. As in, in 42 days in the Southwest, T-Mobile worked SIX, Verizon worked 42. So, T-Mobile went away. In November, we decided to try T-Mobile again because of the constantly yammered statements that it’s not FANTASTIC, and has the WIDEST coverage of anyone, and “it’ll work no matter where you are”…… I’m in Florida. When west of Tampa - it DIDN’T WORK AT ALL. Nothing. Couldn’t even get the mobile hotspot to connect on the Galaxy S22 most of the time, and when it did, it NEVER got close to even 1 Mbps. Figured that was a fluke, and when I got somewhere like Fort Myers, it would be BLAZING fast and that paultry 40MB of hot spot data would get used to good advantage… Um… NO! Here, in north Fort Myers, within a quarter mile of I-75, there’s almost NO signal, and Speedtest shows at BEST, a whopping 1.05 Mbps for download speed. It’s so BAD, I get better performance from Visible, which is Verizon’s garbage, bottom-of-the-barrel data that priorities lower than anything else in the universe. To say I’m unimpressed with T-Mobile’s DRASTIC improvement would be an understatement… Next I’ll be in Big Cypress and the Everglades, and if this POS doesn’t even work here, I presume there’s NO hope for it there. Anybody out there have ANY USEFUL ideas for how to get this Galaxy S22 to perform a whole lot better than it has in the last 3 weeks and 2 locations?602Views0likes9Comments