@Dolphin1 wrote:
Can this only be done if you are in Canada ?
If you travel to the US or Europe what happens ?
All services with Public Mobile only work while in Canada. The exception is roaming add-ons for use in the states.
All cell providers set up roaming agreements with other providers. Public Mobile has agreements with AT&T and T-Mobile in the states. That's it.
I like to think of it as a conversation. The SIM is unique to a provider and uses the phone as its transmission medium. Turn on the phone and the SIM (via the phone) looks for towers transmitting. The tower sees you there and says who are you. The SIM says I'm with Public Mobile. The tower says oh hey come on in. Or...the tower says you're not welcome here...go away. I'm ignoring you. Now you have no service.
It used to be that customers of different providers in Canada had to roam elsewhere in the country. Then Telus and Bell agreed with each other that their customers could use the others' towers. There are other smaller providers that have similar agreements with them or other providers.
So here it's only in the states and only those two providers. (or other areas where those providers operate)
There are a couple quirks that go our way but they could be removed at any time. You can receive a call or text in the states. You just can't call or text out without an add-on. Last month I actually had data for a brief period of time but I couldn't reproduce it.
