topic Re: Do the Canada-US plans have strong cell service signal in Boston, Massachusetts? in Get Support

Do the Canada-US plans have strong cell service signal in Boston, Massachusetts?

Athena246 — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 22:58:30 GMT

I am going to the Boston / Cambridge area, does the cell phone service of Public Mobile have good signal there?
i.e. do calling other people go smoothly?

Thanks for your insights and help!

Re: Do the Canada-US plans have strong cell service signal in Boston, Massachusetts?

will13am — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:01:15 GMT

@Athena246 , yes the coverage in the Boston area is fantastic. I was there in the spring time. This service uses both T-Mobile and AT&T as roaming partners. The coverage is doubly good as compared to buy a local service with one of these roaming partners.

Re: Do the Canada-US plans have strong cell service signal in Boston, Massachusetts?

eddieO — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:06:09 GMT

@Athena246 T-Mobile and AT&T are available in Boston area so you should have no issues connecting to either of them. Now depending on if your phone is on PM's whitelist of approved VoLTE devices is another thing that could effect your call quality. If your phone is not on the list you will need to try to manually connect to the T-Mobile's 2G but data and text would not be effected

Scroll towards the bottom for a list of VoLTE-roaming enabled devices:
https://www.publicmobile.ca/en/on/get-help/articles/volte

Re: Do the Canada-US plans have strong cell service signal in Boston, Massachusetts?

hairbag1 — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:50:44 GMT

@Athena246

just make sure you have a volte enabled cellphone that's on the PM volte whitelist.

Re: Do the Canada-US plans have strong cell service signal in Boston, Massachusetts?

Athena246 — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:54:41 GMT

Thank you, I'm unfamiliar with the PM volte whitelist, would my phone (Samsung galaxy A32) be considered sufficient?

Re: Do the Canada-US plans have strong cell service signal in Boston, Massachusetts?

hermi1 — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 02:05:04 GMT

I have same issues, May I buy adds on ?

Re: Do the Canada-US plans have strong cell service signal in Boston, Massachusetts?

softech — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 02:21:02 GMT

@Athena246 wrote:
Thank you, I'm unfamiliar with the PM volte whitelist, would my phone (Samsung galaxy A32) be considered sufficient?

@Athena246

A32 is not on PM's whitelist

FYI, here is the whitelist:
https://www.publicmobile.ca/en/on/get-help/articles/volte

Re: Do the Canada-US plans have strong cell service signal in Boston, Massachusetts?

softech — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 02:22:30 GMT

@hermi1 wrote:
I have same issues, May I buy adds on ?

@hermi1

tell us more before we can suggest.

So, you are going US and would like to have roaming service? do you need Voice and text only or data as well? what phone do you have ?

Re: Do the Canada-US plans have strong cell service signal in Boston, Massachusetts?

computergeek541 — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 04:02:31 GMT

@Athena246 wrote:
I am going to the Boston / Cambridge area, does the cell phone service of Public Mobile have good signal there?
i.e. do calling other people go smoothly?

The signal strength itself isn't related to the actual Pubilc Mobile plan but rather with the signal strength of the major networks in the US.