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Need Help Setting Up Wind Mobile - Freedom Mobile - Data Only Plan on my Cell Phone

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Newbie
Feb 7, 2017
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Need Help Setting Up Wind Mobile - Freedom Mobile - Data Only Plan on my Cell Phone

Have an older Wind phone and I am trying to use it with the Wind Data Only plan but I can't set up the APN properly. Can somebody help?

It is a Wind phone, Nexus 5. Works fine with the Voice Plan Sim. How do I set the APN? Thanks
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Newbie
Feb 7, 2017
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I have seen those. I need to set up the data only sim on my cell phone. I crated a broadband.windmobile.ca apn but it does not seem to work.
Member
Oct 17, 2016
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Use the internet.windmobile.ca APN, the broadband APN does not work on cell phones
Currently a Freedom Mobile customer on the Everywhere50 plan with the $10 3gb data addon with free canada and usa roaming.
Deal Expert
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Dec 12, 2009
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Cell phone plans use internet.windmobile.ca. Data only plans use broadband.windmobile.ca. Best solution is to call the provider and ask for help.
Newbie
Feb 7, 2017
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I am trying to setup the data only plan on a cell phone, Nexus 5. Has anybody done that and can you walk me through it ? Thanks
Deal Addict
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Apr 18, 2009
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try this:
broadband.windmobile.ca

and then set the apn type to (exactly as below):
default,dun
Member
Jul 10, 2006
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I have a nexus 5 with data only plan. Works with broadband.windmobile.ca and apntype=default,dun. On another phone same data plan data works on the phone but wifi tethering off the same phone has no data connection. Anybody seen this before?
Member
Jul 10, 2006
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Toronto
Thanks. The phone works with wifi tethering. I can get this phone to work with a voice+data sim. But I can't get this working with data-only sim with the settings I provided.

The link to Howard forums is only for voice+data sim, not dat-only sim
Deal Fanatic
Apr 20, 2011
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Sounds like you've tried every possible setting - I'd just call them and ask.
I haven't heard much about the data-only plan. I know they don't block tethering for phone plans, but are they blocking for the data plans? (do they even have the ability to do so? I don't know..)

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