Roaming with Fizz

MobileFizzer_VBMV6
MobileFizzer_VBMV6 Posts: 196 ✭✭
edited April 18 in My Mobile

Good news. Despite having disappeared from the website, the pay-as-you-go roaming options still exist. Fizz sends them to you via email once the Fizz SIM starts roaming. Sending text messages back to Canada from wallet funds work (and is cheaper than PAYG texts sent while in Canada :) ). Weirdly enough, the Fizz SIM wouldn't find and register on a roaming network automatically, kept having no service until I went through manual network selection. Two out of the three local networks work.

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  • elena code xzi4t
    elena code xzi4t Posts: 11,828 ✭✭
    edited April 17

    This can depend on the country in the USA I didn’t have any problems and needs to select the network.
    Regarding the price other users made the same observation that it is cheaper pay as you in other country than in Canada, also the option to add a country 1000 mins it is cheaper that add minutes for Canada

  • MobileFizzer_VBMV6
    MobileFizzer_VBMV6 Posts: 196 ✭✭

    Well, the US is barely a "roaming" country for us Fizzers :) Based on what plan we have.

  • elena code xzi4t
    elena code xzi4t Posts: 11,828 ✭✭

    @MobileFizzer_VBMV6 said:
    Well, the US is barely a "roaming" country for us Fizzers :) Based on what plan we have.

    Still roaming a different one

  • jvh_NVPF2
    jvh_NVPF2 Posts: 1,478 ✭✭

    Do you find it cheaper to use the PAYG roaming that Fizz offers versus getting a local eSIM?

  • G225 code IRSGE
    G225 code IRSGE Posts: 6,300 ✭✭

    It depends on what you use it for.

  • MobileFizzer_VBMV6
    MobileFizzer_VBMV6 Posts: 196 ✭✭

    Well, 3c for outgoing text messages in roaming is pretty good. Plus, recipients see the messages come from your usual number, rather than a temporary number from a local or travel sim.

    Data prices I would classify as moderate. $6 for 1GB, $10 for 2GB, $20 for 5GB. This is Western European countries of course. Sure, you may get that cheaper from some local or travel sim, but consider how much research, time and effort you have to put into finding and activating the right plan. Also don't forget, with Fizz the data is valid up to two months which you wouldn't get necessarily get from other plans. And 5GB, I think, is a decent amount if you limit yourself to messaging, web browsing and local reasearch and refrain from extensive audio and video streaming. Not too long ago, this was all the data we had in a month and we managed :)

    If of course you want that, then you'd have to complement with WiFi if that's an option or you're back to local or travel sims.

  • MobileFizzer_VBMV6
    MobileFizzer_VBMV6 Posts: 196 ✭✭
    edited April 17

    More good news. The roaming zones also still appear to be in effect. Even if they are no longer documented on the Fizz website at the moment. I'm using a data travel addon for The Netherlands, and the data still works in the next country over. And appears to be charged to the add-on rather than the wallet.
    The data is still being tunnelled back to Montréal. I can watch Crave TV on the Fizz data without it complaining that I am not in Canada.

  • elena code xzi4t
    elena code xzi4t Posts: 11,828 ✭✭

    @MobileFizzer_VBMV6 said:
    More good news. The roaming zones also still appear to be in effect. Even if they are no longer documented on the Fizz website at the moment. I'm using a data travel addon for The Netherlands, and the data still works in the next country over. And appears to be charged to the add-on rather than the wallet.
    The data is still being tunnelled back to Montréal. I can watch Crave TV on the Fizz data without it complaining that I am not in Canada.

    This is a very good news, hopefully they will reinstate the zone note it will be easier to follow

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