What does Cellular roaming on IOS mean?

[FI Fheonix]

Just curious, I didn’t understand the explanation Apple gave me.

[Dedayog]

19 minutes ago, FI Fheonix said:

Just curious, I didn’t understand the explanation Apple gave me.

Roaming means when you're outside your coverage area from your provider, you can use other networks to keep communicating.

 

Impactful when you're outside the country.  No one thinks about it in-country, really. 

[flibberdipper]

19 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

Roaming means when you're outside your coverage area from your provider, you can use other networks to keep communicating.

 

Impactful when you're outside the country.  No one thinks about it in-country, really. 

Yeah the only peeps who really think about it are those of us who border Canadaland. Sometimes it can be pretty annoying bouncing to roaming just because you're like a mile from Canada.

[FI Fheonix]

41 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

Roaming means when you're outside your coverage area from your provider, you can use other networks to keep communicating.

 

Impactful when you're outside the country.  No one thinks about it in-country, really. 

Appreciate it.

[ccnow]

21 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

Yeah the only peeps who really think about it are those of us who border Canadaland. Sometimes it can be pretty annoying bouncing to roaming just because you're like a mile from Canada.

Out of curiosity do any major US carriers not offer free Canadian roaming these days? I thought free roaming in Canada and Mexico was a pretty basic feature now adays.

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, ccnow said:

Out of curiosity do any major US carriers not offer free Canadian roaming these days? I thought free roaming in Canada and Mexico was a pretty basic feature now adays.

I'm honestly not sure. I know my previous carrier (MetroPCS) was kinda weird about how they worded it, and when I sat at the water it would jump from "standard" LTE to roaming and it was godawful slow. Right now I have Visible and roaming isn't nearly as much of an issue, though lately I just haven't had 5G where I normally do which is odd.

[Donut417]

1 hour ago, ccnow said:

Out of curiosity do any major US carriers not offer free Canadian roaming these days? I thought free roaming in Canada and Mexico was a pretty basic feature now adays.

For voice and Text yes. With data it comes with limits. Even if its unlimited is going to be slow.

[ccnow]

6 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

I'm honestly not sure. I know my previous carrier (MetroPCS) was kinda weird about how they worded it, and when I sat at the water it would jump from "standard" LTE to roaming and it was godawful slow. Right now I have Visible and roaming isn't nearly as much of an issue, though lately I just haven't had 5G where I normally do which is odd.

In my experience T-Mobiles network is far faster than Verizons - that could be your problem.

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, ccnow said:

In my experience T-Mobiles network is far faster than Verizons - that could be your problem.

It's the exact opposite where I am. Tmo was useless, especially at my house, whereas with Visible I actually didn't realize I had WiFi turned off for the first week after porting over. I'm honestly not sure if it's congestion or just iOS being funky about how it displays my connection. Either way, still works better than Tmo ever did so I'll take it.

[ccnow]

2 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

It's the exact opposite where I am. Tmo was useless, especially at my house, whereas with Visible I actually didn't realize I had WiFi turned off for the first week after porting over. I'm honestly not sure if it's congestion or just iOS being funky about how it displays my connection. Either way, still works better than Tmo ever did so I'll take it.

It's always a question of location, I'm only speaking from my experience which is generally confined to the continental US east of the Rockies and north of Texas.