Report: Roaming Canada <-> States. No voice in States

BraX3
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Origin is Ontario Canada with Freedom Mobile. In Ontario voice and data work great! Physical SIM used transferred from old iOS device I used mainly as a hotspot for Garmin GPS device.

When crossing the border into the States it is picked up by AT&T and data still works great but voice calls become an impossibility.

Reading through the Compatible Carriers - United States post it seems as though AT&T doesn’t really work well as a third party but T-Mobile does. Is there any way to prioritise who picks up the braX3 when travelling/roaming?

If AT&T wants to blacklist behaviour a device why would it pick it up in the first place? Ideally, I will put my normies in a Faraday bag and only break them out on occasion. For now i’m keeping both running all the time during the day. :saluting_face:

Any other travellers with this type of roaming issue?

Report: Roaming in the States
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You can manually change the carrier you’re connecting to when roaming, if your operator supports it, of course (they usually do).

Go to: Settings > Network & internet > SIMs > Select your SIM > Toggle off Automatically Select network > Choose network

That should do the trick.

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Thanks so much for letting me know the option to choose! However, I was working with it this morning and AT&T was the only option to choose from as nothing else appeared.

I called Freedom to find out if they had some exclusive deal with att and they said not at all and that T-Mobile should show up while roaming in the USA.

Also, I found when disabling automatic selection, I have to select Freedom manually now when entering Canada.

I will keep working with it and report if I can get T-Mobile to appear. If there are any other settings I should look at please let me know, but I know you guys are super swamped right now. Thanks!

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Thanks for the feedback.
It’s possible that T-mobile doesn’t have coverage in the area you’ve been.
TMO claim they have 99% coverage. Might be the same as “kills 99% of germs”…

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I got T-Mobile! Thanks for your help! @plamen We just got to be patient with the 1% of germs left over. :wink:

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