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Cellular Phone Forum / General / GSM / September 2006Can I use my GSM phone with US carriers?
Travelled to Italy this summer and bought an unlocked Motorola L2 GSM phone and a TIM (Italy) SIM card. Now I'm back home. Is this phone useless? Can I buy a SIM here in the US that works with a US carrier? >Travelled to Italy this summer and bought an unlocked Motorola L2 GSM >phone and a TIM (Italy) SIM card. Now I'm back home. Is this phone >useless? Can I buy a SIM here in the US that works with a US carrier? Depends. The L2 comes in tri-band and quad-band GSM varieties, depending on country of sale and carrier branding. One thing to check is the bands displayed in the manual network setup menu. If it has 1900 MHz, you can use it on T-Mobile USA. If it has 850 and 1900 MHz, you can also use it on Cingular USA. Thanks, Mike. I think it's quadband. Do you know if I can use it as a pre-paid phone with either t-mobile or cingular? Not interested in signing up for monthly service. Nick > >Travelled to Italy this summer and bought an unlocked Motorola L2 GSM > >phone and a TIM (Italy) SIM card. Now I'm back home. Is this phone [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > If it has 1900 MHz, you can use it on T-Mobile USA. > If it has 850 and 1900 MHz, you can also use it on Cingular USA. >Thanks, Mike. > >I think it's quadband. Do you know if I can use it as a pre-paid phone >with either t-mobile or cingular? Not interested in signing up for >monthly service. An unlocked quad band GSM phone will work as prepaid on either carrier. >Travelled to Italy this summer and bought an unlocked Motorola L2 GSM >phone and a TIM (Italy) SIM card. Now I'm back home. Is this phone >useless? Can I buy a SIM here in the US that works with a US carrier? As long as the phone is unlocked, and supports GSM 1900, it should work with a locally purchased SIM from T-Mobile. Cingular is a bit dicier, because Cingular is largely composed of former wireline licenses, as a result a lot of the Cingular network is on 850Mhz, quad band phones in Europe are very rare creatures. > Travelled to Italy this summer and bought an unlocked Motorola L2 GSM > phone and a TIM (Italy) SIM card. Now I'm back home. Is this phone > useless? Can I buy a SIM here in the US that works with a US carrier? Yup no worries so long as the phone is unlocked it should work with USA T-mobile. Some phones come unlocked already.  Signaturewww.experimentalist.co.uk/shop/index.php Australia, New Zealand, USA, German, UK, South Africa, Thailand, Brazil Sim Cards & EPIRB. My help forum www.experimentalist.co.uk/forum/index.php |
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