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#226047 - 08/07/2004 14:54 GSM coverage
Whitey
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Registered: 09/03/2002
Posts: 178
Loc: Louisiana, USA
Ok. Traveling abroad and am looking for a cell phone that can work with mulitple GSM bands. I am going to Tunisia where the GSM band is 900mhz, and I live in the US where the GSM band is 1900. As i can figure the rest of the UK is on GSM 850.

Is the Tuner in most phones software driven, or is it tuned through hardware?
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#226048 - 08/07/2004 15:10 Re: GSM coverage [Re: Whitey]
Roger
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Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
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As i can figure the rest of the UK is on GSM 850.


The UK is generally on 900 and 1800, IIRC. You need a tri-band phone that does 900, 1800 and 1900. Nokia do a selection.
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#226049 - 08/07/2004 18:01 Re: GSM coverage [Re: Whitey]
matthew_k
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Registered: 12/02/2002
Posts: 2298
Loc: Berkeley, California
It's more complex than that. In the US, T-Mobile is on 1900, and Cingular and AT&T are on both 1900 and 850. Europe is 900, as Roger said. If you're going with T-Mobile, you can get away with a tri-band phone, otherwise you can pick up two phones, or get one of the new Motorola quad band phones that have recently hit the market.

Matthew

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#226050 - 12/07/2004 13:39 Re: GSM coverage [Re: Whitey]
drakino
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Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 7868
My Sony Ericsson T610 has done an excellent job thus far over here in Europe. It is a traditional tri-band phone, with support for 900, 1800, and 1900. I use TMobile back home, and used an O2 SIM over here for a time.

I'm going to look for a quad band SE phone down the road, so that when roaming in the US on Cingular, I get the best reception. Roaming here and seeing 4-5 GSM providers at any time is awesome. US cell companies should be forced to a single standard.

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