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List of Tmobile partners in Europe
Does anyone know where I can find a list of T-Mobile partners for reach country? I ask because I will be on a cruise line that has its own tower, and I plan to do manual connections to the correct T-Mobile partner towers when I am near the ship so I can avoid the usurious prices cruise ships charge when roaming on their towers.
gramps28 wrote:
I just found this on reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/688cxm/tmobile_roaming_partner_list/
I saw that too. I am concerned that it's likely outdated since it's 7 years old. I'm hoping there's something more up to date out there.
drnewcomb wrote:
T-Mobile does not publish the list of their roaming partners. They are capable of using LAC blocking to regulate which of several partners they use in a given location. The best you can do is to just manually try to connect to various signals (less Cellular at Sea) and see what happens. You should get a text saying "Welcome to Elbonia. Data is free but very slow." Or something to that effect.
You might want to see if your phone allows excluding the signal of the ship's cell service. For instance, it may be 2G and you can set your phone to only work on 3G or better.
Thank you. I do have another question. I usually get notifications everywhere I go saying, "You are roaming" regardless if I'm on an authorized Tmobile partner network or not. So, how do I know for sure I'm on acceptable network?
ryanlamar wrote:
Does anyone know where I can find a list of T-Mobile partners for reach country? I ask because I will be on a cruise line that has its own tower, and I plan to do manual connections to the correct T-Mobile partner towers when I am near the ship so I can avoid the usurious prices cruise ships charge when roaming on their towers.
Why would you want to, tmobile sucks, worst carrier doing business today.
I am not finding a list of partners either 😐 I would follow the advice of @drnewcomb
I was stuck in Turkey with little to no service. And even worse, I needed to change a flight but couldn't because I didn't have service and then ended up having to come out of pocket over $800 to purchase a brand new flight to come home. Nightmare.
In many countries, TMobile's default service, while included for text/data is similar to slightly better than 2g. I would recommend either a 'data pass' or use of a local SIM. This could probably have been done using the app.or.wifi
The default responses are not okay. T-mobile service didn't work even after getting on the wifi. Your service is supposed to work everywhere and I was stranded without communication. T-mobile needs to refund me $1234 for a flight I had to come for out of pocket all because your service didn't work. I had to use other's people devices to conduct important personal and business - that is the only way i was able to get back home. I will take a phone serviced by aother provider next time I go overseas.
swilliams1111 wrote:
The default responses are not okay. T-mobile service didn't work even after getting on the wifi. Your service is supposed to work everywhere and I was stranded without communication. T-mobile needs to refund me $1234 for a flight I had to come for out of pocket all because your service didn't work. I had to use other's people devices to conduct important personal and business - that is the only way i was able to get back home. I will take a phone serviced by aother provider next time I go overseas.
Not that I don’t feel for your emergency, but when traveling to a foreign country, you might want to use a more ‘local’ service.
“Your service is supposed to work everywhere “ - T-Mobile won’t (can’t) guarantee country of a roaming provider in another country, let alone it’s own .. here.
I've used many carriers (AT&T, Sprint, Nextel, Verizon, T-Mobile) and they all have their issues … even locally. If I'm going to be in a foreign country where I NEED to rely on cellular service, or data in general to work, I'm going to do what "I" can to ensure that there are no issues.
Most T-Mobile default data services roaming (esp in foreign countries) are ~2G service speeds, unless you want to purchase high speed. That is 'your' choice. I have used the slow speed service in Europe, and it isn't great .. but good enough for Google Maps and text.
