@Icemaid wrote:
Hspa are different from the gsm?
@Icemaid GSM is a very old 2G standard. Rogers (Rogers, Fido, Chatr) is the only provider with a GSM network in Canada, and they are turning it off at the end of 2020.
HSPA is a 3G standard, and is operated by Telus (Telus, Koodo, Public Mobile), Bell (Bell, Virgin, Lucky), and Rogers (Rogers, Fido, Chatr). You may also see it listed as UMTS, or W-CDMA (the W- part is important, CMDA without the W- is different). What you want is 850MHz (sometimes called Band 5 or B5, but not to be confused with 4G LTE Band 5) and 1900MHz (sometimes called Band 2 or B2, but not to be confused with 4G LTE Band 2). You want both of these frequencies, listed as HSPA, HSDPA, UMTS, or W-CDMA. Confusing, but that's what you're looking for at a minimum.
Despite your plan being a "3G" plan, you can actually get data on either the 3G network (as described above), or on the 4G LTE network, but limited to a speed that's similar to the 3G network. You need the two 3G frequncies noted above, but any of the following (in approximate order of helpfulness) 4G LTE bands are a bonus if avialable: B4, B2, B5, B7, B12, B13, B17, B30, possibly a couple of others.
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