What Does Ride Mobile Offer When I’m Out of My Primary Carrier’s Coverage Area?

What Does Ride Mobile Offer When I’m Out of My Primary Carrier’s Coverage Area?

Outside your Primary Carrier’s service area, Ride provides data connectivity for all the apps you use on your iPhone, including maps and navigation, podcasts, news, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram, Zoom, Skype, Google, Amazon, Minecraft and other games, streaming video, and countless other applications.


As long as a carrier – any carrier – provides a usable signal, Ride picks that up to seamlessly maintain data connectivity.


The only thing you can’t do on Ride Mobile is make or receive a traditional voice call as those can only be completed by your Primary Carrier within their coverage area. Instead, with Ride, you would use a wide range of apps for voice calling such as WhatsApp, Skype, Viber, Facetime, or similar services. If you’re traveling in the U.S. and anticipate that you might lose coverage, make your voice call using one of the voice calling apps above and Ride will provide seamless connectivity in areas with coverage.


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