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news - 11 Mar 2007 23:06 GMT

I'm going to Australia next month and was wondering if my Sprint phone will
work their
Thanks

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Dennis Ferguson - 12 Mar 2007 18:22 GMT

> I'm going to Australia next month and was wondering if my Sprint phone will
> work their

I'm pretty sure it will as long as your phone is dual band.

Dennis Ferguson

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Mutlley - 12 Mar 2007 20:50 GMT

>> I'm going to Australia next month and was wondering if my Sprint phone will
>> work their
>
>I'm pretty sure it will as long as your phone is dual band.
>
>Dennis Ferguson

Assuming your phone is CDMA and Sprint has a roaming agreement with
the Ozz telcos you should be OK..

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rlsusenet@NOSPAMPUHLEEZschnapp.org - 13 Mar 2007 00:51 GMT

>>> I'm going to Australia next month and was wondering if my Sprint phone will
>>> work their
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> Assuming your phone is CDMA and Sprint has a roaming agreement with
> the Ozz telcos you should be OK..

I was surprised to find my Sprint Treo 650 worked just fine in New
Zealand last April. It hadn't occurred to me that it might work, but I
tried it and voila! It cost US$1.50 per minute -- expensive, but
cost-effective for my purposes. I was only using it for the occasional
call to make reservations. Renting a phone would have cost NZ$30-ish
and NZ$1/minute or so.

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joel - 17 Mar 2007 11:06 GMT

> I'm going to Australia next month and was wondering if my Sprint phone will
> work their
> Thanks

You have to contact Sprint Customer service to organise a GSM phone as
per the info on their roaming info page

http://www1.sprintpcs.com/explore/ueContent.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=1460181&CU
RRENT_USER%3C%3EATR_SCID=ECOMM&CURRENT_USER%3C%3EATR_PCode=None&CURRENT_USER%3C%
3EATR_cartState=group&scTopic=internationalRoaming

Your CDMA phone will not roam in Oz according the the Sprint info,
even though Aus does have 2, 850 CDMA networks.

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panner - 25 Mar 2007 13:48 GMT

>I'm going to Australia next month and was wondering if my Sprint phone will
>work their
>Thanks

Sprint wont work in Oz.

Contact Sprint CS for an overseas phone rental.

It will be a GSM unit, ironically, not CDMA.

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