North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: OT- need a new GSM provider
Way off topic, hit delete now. On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:09:27PM +0000, vijay gill wrote: > Triband phones mostly operate on 900/1800/1900 frequencies. There is a > major US deployment of GSM on the "cellular" GSM 850 band. So if you are > with a triband phone on anyone other than Tmobile (which uses only > 1900gsm in the US), you will not get adequately covered. You want either > a US centric triband for use in the US with ATT/cingular that operates > on GSM 850/1800/1900 and then get a world triband on GSM 900/1800/1900 > and swap sims in and out (trivially easy to get most gsm phones > unlocked) I've had no drama at all going internation with T-Mobile service, using an unlocked (nokiafree.org) AT&T 6310i phone. > if you are going to be calling a lot while abroad, I suggest picking up > an unlocked nokia 6310i and prepaid sims as you fly into airports. > Put up a web page with your current phone number of choice. Ugh. Much more convenient to just carry your phone with you ;-) > Also note due to fraud mitigation, most phones only allow you to call > within the country you are in or back to the home country, all the while > charging you an exhorbitant price. Um, sorry but I've never seen this. I used to world-roam on AT&T, and now I do it with T-Mobile and never had any such drama. Kind of hard to place a call in Europe without calling the next country over ;-) AT&T used to rip me a new one for intl->intl calls, but t-mobiles rates are roughly half that and apparently do pass-thru charges for calls which don't leave a given providers network...? Anyway, I spent nearly a month in Spain this spring and my cell phone was my only contact, for both voice and many long hours of GPRS internet access, and the bill was only $890 or something similar. (I had a few 2.5k phone bills on similar length trips to England while using AT&T...) -- Joe Rhett Senior Geek Meer.net
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