Traveling to Canada for a couple of days, Do I have coverage for Canada?

T-Mobile's coverage in Canada is mostly provided by the Bell/Telus network. It is fairly decent coverage depending on where you are going in Canada. If you are heading up to one of the territories, then service might be limited or non-existent due to it just being incredibly rural. Major cities like Toronto Montreal, Quebec City, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, and Winnepeg will all have excellent coverage. Make sure your plan includes Canada and understand what it comes with. The Magenta Plan I have as an example, includes calling and texting to and from Canada at no extra cost with up to 5GB of high speed data. Exceeding that drops me down to almost unusable slow speeds that would not be good enough to use any sort of Map app for directions. Give Customer Care a call at 611 or reach out to T-Mobile via DM on Facebook or Twitter. Have them make sure that international roaming is enabled on your account, have them confirm your plan includes Canada for calling, texting, and roing, and see what data add-ons are available for your plan if you intend on using more data that what your plan might provide.

The 15's have decent modems. The 13 is more than likely an Intel modem. It's a good time to upgrade that one to the 16 in a few weeks. The better service in southern Ontario is on Rogers (AT&T). They use a lot of the lower band like band 71 that T-Mobile uses. They were T-Mobile's roaming partner back pre-2016 but Rogers is kind of like Verizon in the sense that their service is good in more populated areas but is terrible or nonexistent in rural areas.

syaoran wrote: The 15's have decent modems. The 13 is more than likely an Intel modem. It's a good time to upgrade that one to the 16 in a few weeks. The better service in southern Ontario is on Rogers (AT&T). They use a lot of the lower band like band 71 that T-Mobile uses. They were T-Mobile's roaming partner back pre-2016 but Rogers is kind of like Verizon in the sense that their service is good in more populated areas but is terrible or nonexistent in rural areas. I'll agree with that for the most part. One exception - NW Ontario where Rogers ≈ TBayTel. North of Lake Superior. Rogers (TBaytel ≈ Superior Wireless) has most of the coverage on highway 17 from the Sault to Manitoba. Bellus (Bell/Telus) is adding - but has larger gaps - nothing between many towns.

Depending on your plan you should be fine but @syaoran is better versed in Canadian coverage.

I was just in Ontario for the last two days in the Brockville area right along the 401. I had purchased the two days of extended international coverage. Mainly for the data for my Maps and Facebook, etc.. The coverage on voice was good, but the data coverage was hideous. I should've saved my money and just driven from Tim Hortons to Tim Hortons. One of our iPhones was connected to "Bell" the other to "Telus" which was confusing. It's Canada for goodness sakes. Figure this out already.

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syaoran
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formercanuck wrote:

I haven’t been around as much of Ontario as I used to, since I’ve been in SoCal, but with the +105F (see road trips).

Planning next summer already Buffalo → Dunlop Lake → Ottawa (OWL river tours) → Buffalo

If work allows, remote work for 1 month at Dunlop Lake (Starlink internet is included there)

That sounds awesome!
formercanuck
Spectrum Specialist
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It’s been a while since I’ve done the rapids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEl0wRxdo1k
DM412
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Hace 4 meses
One caveat about 5G service. In some areas Bell/Tellus only have LTE service on their towers, while Rogers may have a 5G cell. In those cases, you will only be able to get LTE service. Rogers doesn't seem to let T-Mobile use their 5G. There's also an app called "TowerLocator" that can be used to see locations, providers, and cell frequencies for towers in Canada that you may find useful.
syaoran
Transmission Titan
Hace 4 meses
DM412 wrote:

One caveat about 5G service. In some areas Bell/Tellus only have LTE service on their towers, while Rogers may have a 5G cell. In those cases, you will only be able to get LTE service. Rogers doesn't seem to let T-Mobile use their 5G. There's also an app called "TowerLocator" that can be used to see locations, providers, and cell frequencies for towers in Canada that you may find useful.

There is currently no roaming agreement with Rogers and hasn't been since 2016.
Bell/Telus have a very different deployment strategy than Rogers. Bell/Telus won't upgrade sites until they absolutely have to where Rogers likes having the title of, Canada's Fastest Wireless Network.

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