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iirc you can always go to the phone’s settings app and change the carrier it connects to

For example, on iOS:

Settings > Cellular > Network Selection > Switch off Automatic

It didn't work, I tried to manually connect to other service providers (Roaming) and the connection was rejected. I liked to believe the others service providers automatically blocked Rogers customers to keep their service alive.

Update:Grammar.

His point was that you could do that for 911, not for actual roaming service.

I'm no expert but I feel like roaming still require some sort of "authentication" over the original network and obviously Rogers would have failed on that part.

I think that would work. Just tried it and while I got “zero bars”, going into field test mode showed I was sitting connected to another roaming network with limited service.

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