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SJD_'s avatar
SJD_
Roaming Rookie
Hace 3 años

T-mobile needs to fix the data issue with Canada

Considering multiple users are experiencing exactly the same issue with data roaming in Canada currently, can we please hear from T-mobile exactly what they are doing about this?

  • formercanuck's avatar
    formercanuck
    Spectrum Specialist

    That might depend on the plan you're on.  Older plans like Simple Choice where capped to ~256kbps.

    I’m not sure about prepaid, but it may have similar issues.

    iPhones are pretty much generic - especially for North America.

    I haven't had issues - except when I first used T-Mobile - and that was because I didn't enable data roaming - back in 2015.  I've typically hit ~200-300Mbps on LTE in Canada, so no … Canada doesn't have a performance issue.  Typically you should be on Bell/Telus in most places.  Rogers isn't (or wasn't ) the easiest to connect to.

  • I'm in Canada right now and have not had data work once. I've been through three+ calls now with T-Mobile support and nothing has worked. This is hours of my vacation wasted because T-Mobile has been unable to provide a promised service. I have a Galaxy S23, roaming is turned on, I've reset my network, they've tried several things behind the scenes. I'm giving up and going to try to get my money back.

  • syaoran's avatar
    syaoran
    Transmission Titan
    JamesCanada wrote:

    I'm in Canada right now and have not had data work once. I've been through three+ calls now with T-Mobile support and nothing has worked. This is hours of my vacation wasted because T-Mobile has been unable to provide a promised service. I have a Galaxy S23, roaming is turned on, I've reset my network, they've tried several things behind the scenes. I'm giving up and going to try to get my money back.

    I am in Canada right now too.  Everything is working fine here in Toronto and has been while I was in Cobourg, Oshawa, and Peterborough over the weekend.  

    For those using Asian market devices, like Redmi.  Those devices might not be permitted on Bell or Telus due to their aggressive policies in not allowing what they deem as grey market devices to operate properly on their networks, restricting them to 3G.  My s23 Ultra has been solid every time I have come up here to Canada.

  • syaoran wrote:
    JamesCanada wrote:

    I'm in Canada right now and have not had data work once. I've been through three+ calls now with T-Mobile support and nothing has worked. This is hours of my vacation wasted because T-Mobile has been unable to provide a promised service. I have a Galaxy S23, roaming is turned on, I've reset my network, they've tried several things behind the scenes. I'm giving up and going to try to get my money back.

    I am in Canada right now too.  Everything is working fine here in Toronto and has been while I was in Cobourg, Oshawa, and Peterborough over the weekend.  

    For those using Asian market devices, like Redmi.  Those devices might not be permitted on Bell or Telus due to their aggressive policies in not allowing what they deem as grey market devices to operate properly on their networks, restricting them to 3G.  My s23 Ultra has been solid every time I have come up here to Canada.

    It is genuinely weird to comment that you don't have a problem every time someone else does. 

  • syaoran's avatar
    syaoran
    Transmission Titan
    JamesCanada wrote:
    syaoran wrote:
    JamesCanada wrote:

    I'm in Canada right now and have not had data work once. I've been through three+ calls now with T-Mobile support and nothing has worked. This is hours of my vacation wasted because T-Mobile has been unable to provide a promised service. I have a Galaxy S23, roaming is turned on, I've reset my network, they've tried several things behind the scenes. I'm giving up and going to try to get my money back.

    I am in Canada right now too.  Everything is working fine here in Toronto and has been while I was in Cobourg, Oshawa, and Peterborough over the weekend.  

    For those using Asian market devices, like Redmi.  Those devices might not be permitted on Bell or Telus due to their aggressive policies in not allowing what they deem as grey market devices to operate properly on their networks, restricting them to 3G.  My s23 Ultra has been solid every time I have come up here to Canada.

    It is genuinely weird to comment that you don't have a problem every time someone else does. 

    I come back and forth to Canada a lot.  A big chunk of my family is here.  If there were issues.  I should be experiencing them.  My device is a T-Mobile USA purchased device.  I also maintain a Canadian number and SIM with Rogers Canada in the same s23Uktra as an eSIM. 

    Anyone having issues needs to be a little more informative on where they are experiencing them.  What device and model you are using.  Do you have data doing enabled on your device?  Is your line permitted to roam internationally?  If you go over your high speed data allowance, the data speeds will be reduced to basically unusable speeds, which some might interpret as their data not working.  

    I am a very tech savvy person but those things mentioned above are all pretty straight forward.  I also know about the Bell/Telus grey market device policy because I was a Telus customer when they went to that b/s and deprovisioned my OnePlus 8T+ 5G from working on anything other than 3G.  After being told why by a senior network engineer for the company  I took that line back to Rogers.  

  • Alyjuma's avatar
    Alyjuma
    Network Novice

    I have been in Vancouver since Sept 29, 2024. About 2 1/2 weeks now. I've had the most horrible Internet service outside of the house. Text and messages go through. Apple to Apple attachments go through but Apple to android messages with attachments do not

    I have a I have an iPhone 14 totally updated. The maps app works, but very slow to load. 
    any other website takes too long or just times out. This is really horrible service. We used to have  MetroPCS last year and that's a subsidiary of T-Mobile or they purchase lines from T-Mobile and their Internet roaming was far superior than the service we have with T-Mobile right now in Canada. very disappointed. 

  • syaoran's avatar
    syaoran
    Transmission Titan

    Being up there that long, you have more than likely exceeded your high speed data allowance while roaming and are being throttled down to speeds so slow, that they aren't useable for much outside of basic e-mail.  The roaming oartner for Canada, which is Telus/Bell, have some not great band deployments in that province.  It's mostly band 66/n66.  Have you tried setting your network selection to manual and selecting Bell?  Bell has some other bands deployed sparsely in certain areas but the speeds, if you aren't being throttled should be a lot better.