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4G not working overseas
I have just arrived in Spain. I have made the changes to the Mobile Data Network but I only have 3G. No issues with calls & texts. Is there anything else I can do?
I posted a topic about this a few months back. 3G on Movistar in Spain and the Canaries whilst using SMARTY sim. Friend with EE Sim connected to Movistar and had 4G consistently. You can do a manual network search and connect to Orange SP which seems to give 4G most of the time. It seems to me that there must be some quirks in the roaming agreement whereby SMARTY (and possibly 3?) sims are de-priorititised for 4G when using certain networks.
Unfortunately, I tried all there available networks and they only provided E data speeds. Restarting the phone each time didn’t help. The networks were O2_de, Vodafone and deutsche telekom. Thanks for you help anyway, I’ve now left Germany and I’m getting a great connection again.
