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