@ddaacc wrote:
My mom has been using it for years with Mobilicity and then Chatr.
I tried connecting manually but can't find Public Mobile's network.
I strongly suspect that your phone is not compatible - as in almost sure.
I'm fully aware that there is a version of the C414 that Bell Mobility sold. That one would be compatible with Public Mobile.
However, since you say that you used this phone at Mobilicity for "years", Mobilicity was using UMTS 1700MHz (Band 4). I suspect that the "Y" in the C414Y is a variant that sold by Mobilicity that was compatible with that frequency.
This phone was sold back in a day (around 2011) that most phones did not have compatibility with 850/1900MHz and 1700MHz UMTS at the same time. There were usually separate variants, and it was usually one or the other.
When you say, "Mobilcity", I am going to assume that you used this there before Rogers bought them and before the network change-over. If that's the case, your phone is probably a variant with only UMTS Band 4. And, if that's the case, the reason it works at Chatr would be because Rogers still has 2g GSM. In short, I'd be willing to bet a large sum of money (figuratively, probably even literally) that your phone is not compatible at all with Public Mobile.
