No service in a covered area.

[ecowen]

I was camping along the southern coast of Vancouver Island just past Sooke and I  received a text saying that I had entered the US and had to pay for coverage.  So, for 3 nights I could not use my phone. I was definitely in Canada in an area that is green on the coverage map.  Can anyone explain what happened?

[ecowen]

However, Public had no problem texting me to tell me I was in the US.

[Alexandf]

@ecowen 

not enough Tower in that area for Telus or Bell, when you be back to your area put it network settings on automatic. and reboot phone. 

[ecowen]

I still don't understand why Public would think I was in the US.

[computergeek541]

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@esjliv wrote:

@ecowen  - you could also turn off the roaming setting in your device.

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Most devices have no setting that is specific only to roaming other the data roaming setting. Disabling data romaing would not prevent the device from connecting to another network. The user would normally need to manually instruct the device to connect to only one specific network.

[ecowen]

Roaming was off.

[ecowen]

The network setting were on Public Mobile.

[esjliv]

@ecowen  - you could also turn off the roaming setting in your device.

[Outdoorsman · Accepted solution]

@ecowen hi you picked up stronger US towers where you were ,in that case all you need to do is take your network settings of automatic and manually select Public Mobile