Optimal Internet Setup for Travel Trailer

I have ATT and the wife has Verizon. And surprisingly in WY and ID she has been getting roaming warnings and no service while my ATT usually has a signal and no roaming.

In a quirk of connectivity, all three "major" USA companies have excellent and identical coverage in Canada--so long as the end user has a plan that covers use outside the country.

I will second the two different providers (NOTE there are really only 3 providers AT&T. T-Mobile and Verizon, most of the others you see advertised are re-sellers of one of those 3)

I use T-mobile exclusively but NO company has 100% coverage. T-Mobile just happens to cover where I park.

AT&T unlimited on a hotspot?

In Canada all the "players" have agreements in place to use any tower. For example, if I am in Ontario, my Sasktel phone will happily connect to a Bell tower. When I am in Saskatchewan, my Bell phone connects to Sasktel towers.

USA is quite different as there are few such agreements in place. However if you have an international package on the phone--then in Canada you would have that same feature (tested on Metro PCS and T-Mobile).

When I'm traveling south of the border, both my Bell and Sasktel phones will use various towers--but since I only have a roaming contract on the Bell phone I would only use the Sasktel if I were in an emergency situation, where the Bell phone refused to connect.

I think one reason there are these differences is that cell towers are not independently owned in Canada. They belong to the various networks.

I did have a Verzion device and found that on the trip south to Florida there were places where I had no service.

But in North Dakota a T-Motile won't connect to a Verizon tower.

Currently Verizon still has the best coverage.

Costs for cell phone service in Canada are pretty much always higher than those in USA.

i have an old grandfathered verizon unlimited data plan on my phone
and an ATT unlimited mobley data plan hotspot

neither are available any longer, but Technomadia mentioned above
as the most complete data on what is available NOW

The type of RV makes no difference. Adding an external antenna will help a lot as well. You will need service from some cellular provider but that assumes where you like to travel that ANY cellular internet service is going to be available. If you travel out into the boonies frequently you might want to give satellite internet service a look.

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