r/freedommobile

Canada has fallen behind countries around the world in building out fibre telecom infrastructure for faster internet speeds. Many of these countries have maintained public ownership in their markets while Canada’s public telecom shrinks. However, SaskTel, one of the last holdouts of public telecom in Canada, outperforms the national average on fibre deployment. This article makes the case that to continue to invest in the 21st century economy, Canada has to rebuild public ownership of telecoms.

To prevent incumbents such as Rogers, Telus and Bell from buying up everything, the feds are putting a cap on how much spectrum any single bidder can walk away with, giving smaller carriers a real shot at competing.

Ottawa also wants to cut down the bureaucratic headache of building new cell towers. The current approval process is slow and expensive, and the government is proposing to replace it with a digital portal where companies can file applications and locals can weigh in online. The idea is to speed things up without cutting communities out of the conversation.

mmWave auction is set for October 19th, 2027.

hey all, got the $4x global roaming plan. im 2 weeks in and data works fine. BUT local calling to chinese numbers only worked for the first two days or so then all calls to local number is 'blocked' just wont connect. calling +1 international number back to canada works tho. im able to receive calls from both local and canadian in coming calls. guess china blocked my canadian foreign number thinking its telecom scam.

Ever since switching to Freedom I’ve noticed worse battery life on my device (despite my old provider and Freedom being co-located on the same tower). It turns out Freedom is using a very aggressive paging cycle (320ms vs 1280ms).

The paging cycle is how often your phone’s modem will wake from idle to check for incoming calls, data, etc.

Rogers, Bell, and Telus all use 1280ms (industry standard). Freedom is using 320ms, meaning that your phone wakes from idle 4x as often. Does anyone have any insight into this topic? I realize it’s quite niche, but it almost seems like a misconfiguration of the network.

Wondering if anyone else has experienced this. Im roaming in Portugal and even though my plan has 25gb of roam beyond data, with talk and text, I'm being charged standard roaming rates (50 cents per megabyte and $1.25 per minute for calling).

After calling support they confirmed I shouldn't be charged and tried to add a 5gb add-on, that still didn't work.

The supervisor then told me to get a local sim card while they take 2-5 business days to figure it out... which is frustrating roaming was the whole reason I got this plan.

So far I'm at over $70+ in roaming charges.

Has anyone else had this happen?

One of the people I'm traveling with also has a freedom plan and their data is working and using their roam beyond data just fine.

We also got different text messages, where mine says I'm being charged standard roaming rates and theirs says they have regular rates...

We currently have Freedom Mobile and our grandparents are on our plan (different province, different address). I know Freedom Internet and TV is exclusive to Mobile customers. Even if it's a different address than what's on the account is that allowed? Also the TV app is it good on Apple TV?

Please help me understand. I am not sure why the data on my iPhone XR iOS 18.7.8 Is not working. I have cellular data and roaming on. It is showing 3 or 4 bars of signal strength. I cannot get any webpages or anything to work. I’ve tried rebooting the phone and toggling cell and roaming on and off. Nothing seems to help. What am I missing or not understanding? Is there a setting I am overlooking? Feeling just a wee bit frustrated as I haven’t been able to use Roam Beyond and I’ve got 2 weeks of holidays still remaining. Any insight will be gratefully accepted and greatly appreciated.

EDIT to add currently in Northern Ireland but heading to southern France.
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Today I got a text message saying that I have used up all 1GB Roam Beyond Data, but I got confused because I thought this is only used in other countries (outside of Canada/US/Mexico). I didn't leave Canada so I'm not sure what triggered to use roam data over nationwide data (which still has a lot remaining)

I always kept the Data Roaming on, was I supposed to leave it off until I travel outside Canada? Maybe I'm misunderstanding how this works, any clarifications would be much appreciated!

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I switched over about a week ago and have god awful reception almost any time I’m indoors, anywhere. I previously had Telus and rarely had issues outside of underground parking, etc

Grocery stores, pacific centre, richmond centre, it doesn’t seem to matter where, my reception takes a nosedive.

At Pricesmart across from Kingsgate I had 1 bar of 3G?

Is it always like this? The price is irrelevant if I can’t ever use the damn data. I try flipping airplane mode on and off, restarting, doesn’t matter.

16 Pro Max, eSIM. Im avoiding resetting network settings because its a pain in the ass

I've tried on several occasions to initiate the switch from Public Mobile to Freedom Mobile so that I can get wifi calling/texting, but the website is always broken, and prevents me from signing up. There's always an error message after I submit the credit check form. So I contact support via chat, and they did something so that now the website claims I have an account and need to log in. But of course I have no PIN yet, and it doesn't let me "reset" my PIN, either. So the support guy says there's nothing he can do to fix it, and that's that. The gross incompetence is very impressive.

I’m noticing when I travel it’s always LTE. US? LTE. Caribbean? LTE. Western Europe? LTE. Do they actually roam with 5G anywhere?

I got the Nokia box yesterday and proceeded to do these things.

• Turn off the Wifi radios
• Put the router into bridge mode.
• Connect it as WAN2 to my UDM Pro

Positioning:

At first I chose a north facing window because I know it faces the closest tower to me. But the second closest tower isn't that much further so I've since moved it to a south facing basement window which is close to my network equipment so it's a cleaner install. With my phone there was a difference in speeds at these locations, but with the Nokia box, there's not that big of a difference, if any at all.

Speedtests:

I had a previous WAN2 which I've now cancelled. It was Ebox VSDL which I was paying 2x for.

Ebox Speed test from UDMP = 50mbps download 5mbps upload

Freedom speed test from UDMP = 117mbps download 11mbps upload

So about 2x the throughput. And the latency is about half as well so it's actually quite good. Ebox latency is pretty bad.

Real world:

I didn't use it yesterday for teams calls and work stuff. There were three of us working from home yesterday so I didn't want to mess with what works. But I switched to Freedom this morning. No one in the house noticed. Two AppleTV's going and whatever browsing. I should note that I have an internal Adgaurd server so DNS is always snappy at sub 1ms for most requests.

Some other observations:

Before getting the box I did some reading on the hardware and it seems that other providers really lock down bridge mode. So instead of hunting around for it, I just accepted the double NAT and used the DMZ mode. But then while poking around, it's quite easy to find and enable bridge mode. I can see the external IP on my UDM.

There's no IPv6.

It uses the n71 5G band.

All in all it's pretty good! I can't use it as primary because we'd use more than 600GB easily. But for the intro price, it's a half price backup from what I had before. Backup is worth it for me because it's much cheaper than losing an hour of work per month.

That's all I can think of that's worth noting. Fire away if you have questions.

Website says once you exceeded your plan’s limit, you’ll just have slower data at up to 256kbps down and 128 up. Anyone experienced what that feels like? I’m thinking of using my phone as a hotspot for home internet. I use max 250GB down and 25 up phone and home combined per month.

Hey, so I had to travel abroad unexpectedly, and now I've found out I'll have to stay abroad way longer than expected. I've been reading about porting my Fido number to Freedom mobile, and it seems to be a good choice for me, especially their yearly plan. But being abroad makes things a tad trickier, so I would like to confirm if what I have in mind would work. Here's my plan:

1. I'd order a SIM card from Freedom and have it mailed to a friend who's currently in Canada (since Freedom doesn't ship cards abroad)
2. My friend would receive the SIM card and activate it on his phone in Canada
3. He would then mail the SIM card to my current address abroad
4. I'd put the Freedom SIM card in my phone and confirm it's working here
5. Finally, I'd request the porting from Fido to Freedom

I have a Samsung Galaxy S20 FE that, unfortunately, does not support eSIMs. In this case, as I understand, I'd need the physical SIM card. I also cannot cancel my Fido account prior to requesting and completing the porting to Freedom because I need to receive an SMS from Fido when I request the porting and reply with another SMS. So, as long as I have both SIM cards activated and working, I would be able to port my Fido number to Freedom.

Can someone please confirm that? Is there anything else I should be aware of?