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Wireless phone data issues downtown

Oddly Specific 🎯

I’m with Telus and typically get great 5G+ speeds on my phone, but I was downtown last night outside around Stadium station and around Tinseltown trying book an Uber at 1am and could not get 5G to cooperate enough to book an uber. Had to jump on a bus to Main St and eventually managed to get service to book an Uber.

Haven’t experienced this, it felt like a massive dead zone around Beatty/W Pender. Was weird too because my phone had a bunch of bars of service but nothing was working on my phone - wasn’t just the Uber app. I rebooted my phone and the issues persisted.

Any chance this could be FIFA related? There was a lot more FIFA infrastructure (stuff fenced off, closures ect) in that area - they got some sort of data sucking gizmos going on?

Posted Jun 8, 2026, 10:22 PM UTC

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