@Anonymous wrote:
@computergeek541 wrote:
@Alex888 wrote:
@cavemaaaanI think the problem is your phone doesn't support LTE data. It probably didn't work very well with 3G because Public Mobile mostly uses throttled LTE (instead of 3G) and 3G isn't as available.
While the HSPA+ network doesn't have 700Mhz capability, I wouldn't say that it is less available than LTE. There was likley a time when not every "tower" had LTE, although I have no looked into the current status of whether there are still any HSPA-only sites in operation. LTE has never been a requirement to use services at Public Mobile, nor has it been at any Canadian carrier.
But if you go out of your way to specifically select the LTE option and your phone doesn't support it (which I'm not sure with this one) then would you get any data with the drop-down (or manually selecting) to HSPA?
@Anonymous, since your're wondering about this, this is likely something specific to the software that the phone is using.
I going to talk about Android because that is what I'm familar with, but there are other operating system possibilities as well. On current versions of Android, there are sometimes options to set either a prefered network type of an absolute network type.
The prefered network type doesn't really mean as it sounds, but rather is the highest possible classification of network type that the phone is allowed to connect to. In this case, if there is no LTE network availabe, the phone would drop down to HSPA mode, and that isn't available the phone would try to use 2g (which Public Mobile doesn't have).
There are also other network type settings available in some cases. I have never seen an "LTE-only" setting in the normally accessible settings menus of a phone. That would just be plain silly becuase such as setting would make it so that phone calls don't work at Public Mobile. I can tell you that an LTE-only option is sometimes available in some hidden service/setting menus. If the network type is set in this manner, not only will phone calls stop working, the phone also wouldn't be able to switch to the HSPA network for data either. On my phone, there is a WCDMA-only setting available in the regular menu (but no LTE-only setting there).
