I have been with Telus Mobility for about three years. Since my home (house + yard) has poor reception I've stuck with the $5 prepaid texting package. I get x to 0 bars inside and 1 or maaaaybe 2 bars outside in the yard. However I've been wanting to use data when out and Telus is too expensive so I switched to PM. I popped the sim in and the bars stayed the same, however I've made some calls/texts outside so that side of things worked. My data did not when I was in town. Thanks to some previous posts and some lovely users help I was able to get data all set up by changing the apn settings. Now when I'm inside I see my phone almost always has between 3 and 4 bars. As soon as I attempt to place a call my bars drop to 1 or 0, even on the rare occassion that they only drop down to two bars, my phone is just stuck on dialing until I get frustrated and hang up.
I have an Asus Zenfone 3 Max that I bought at Staples for under $200 two years ago, but I really don't think that it's the phone. I mean when I'm connected to Telus in the APN it shows X bars, when connected to PM it's like it just won't admit it? I really don't know what the problem could be. Anyone have any ideas?
