Posted by: Whitey
GSM coverage - 08/07/2004 14:54
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?
Posted by: matthew_k
Re: GSM coverage - 08/07/2004 18:01
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
Posted by: drakino
Re: GSM coverage - 12/07/2004 13:39
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.