5g roaming??

[kosi]

Anyone know why it says that 5g roaming isnt a thing on o2 yet when you check a country it says you can use 4g and 5g??

[kosi]

I have a pay monthly sim but i never saw 5g in portugal

[pgn]

@kosi Did you try manually searching through available networks to see if a different provider gave you 5G?

For example: https://community.o2.co.uk/t5/My-O2/Phone-doesn-t-work-when-I-m-in-France/m-p/1702402/highlight/true...

I have had no problem getting 5G when in Germany - not sure about Spain, and I have not been to Portugal...

That said, O2's own website may be out of synch with its international coverage checker tool:

https://www.o2.co.uk/help/network-coverage-and-international/5g-setup

Yet:

Hopefully, even if getting only 4G, your data is useable in Portugal, @kosi 🤞

[kosi]

you can use a different provider?? 😲

[pgn]

As per Guide: Roaming MegaGuide 

Applies quite often in the USA, that one @kosi @ - worth a try elsewhere, I guess 🤷

[kosi]

i never knew that 😭

[kosi]

ill definitely have to try that next time

[NewKosi]

Hi it's Kosi I had to make a new account as I lost access to my original email anyway I have got an update on O2 roaming as I've just been to Munich, Germany and Rhodes, Greece last year in Greece I roamed on COSMOTE or Nova but Vodafone wouldn't connect and in Germany I could roam on either Telekom.de or o2-de and the same with Vodafone it wouldn't let me connect. (I did also roam on EE which could only connect to o2-de)

[madasaf1sh]

@NewKosi 

It is all down to who the Mobile networks partner with an its not unusual to see o2 UK be allowed to o2-de, o2-pl etc and not Vodafone, EE is a bit different, as they dont really have any sister companies in the EU, it used to be orange and t-mobile. 

As I said each network is different and roaming partners are not all the same

[NewKosi]

Yeah I know it was just a bit weird I couldn't connect to Telekom on my EE sim 🙃