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Old Jun 14th 2012 | 1:07 pm
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Originally Posted by rivingtonpike
It's a bloody pain. Every time I go to the South end of the Island (Vancouver) my phone switches to AT&T (I think it is) and I would have to pay roving or roaming rates which are something like $1.50 a minute! So I have to switch it off!
Typical, I go to Port Angeles a lot, and have exactly the opposite. Agreed pain. I try to remember to turn my phone off before I get there now. Do not trust myself once there. We should do dome kind of exchange program.
 
Old Jun 14th 2012 | 1:11 pm
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Typical, I go to Port Angeles a lot, and have exactly the opposite.
Have you ever gotten the US carrier while on the island on your US phone?
 
Old Jun 14th 2012 | 1:14 pm
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Have you ever gotten the US carrier while on the island on your US phone?
Sorry Steve I can not help you. I have not used the phone on trips to Victoria or Vancouver.
 
Old Jun 14th 2012 | 1:48 pm
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But can't you just set your phone to manual network selection and force it to stay on the Canadian carrier?
No idea how to do that! It does sound like a good plan though. At the moment it just flips to the US carrier as I get close to Sooke - so I turn it off.
 
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On an iPhone 4S for example:

Settings->Carrier->set "automatic" to off and wait for it to find all the providers and pick the one you want.

The problem is that a lot of the cheapo PAYG phones don't have an equivalent way of changing the setting.
 

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