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Cellular Phone Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / February 2008Mobile in States
If people go to US - can they receive/send calls to/from their mobiles - can they receive/send texts > If people go to US - can they receive/send calls to/from their > mobiles - can they receive/send texts Depends on a couple of things... First of all, your Service Provider needs to offer a roaming agreement in the US with the contract or PAYG deal that you have with them. You would need to contact your SP (Orange, O2 or whoever) to check that. Secondly, your phone needs to be either Tri-Band or Quad-Band to work over there. If both the above are Ok then you should be able to send and receive texts and make and receive calls whilst in America. Bear in mind though that making calls and sending texts will be quite a bit more expensive, and you will also probably have to pay to RECEIVE calls. It should be free to receive texts though... HTH.  SignatureRegards, Chris. (Remove Elvis's shoes to email me) >> If people go to US - can they receive/send calls to/from their >> mobiles - can they receive/send texts [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > >HTH. It certainly has - many thanks > It certainly has - many thanks Just watch the cost of calling back home to the UK on your UK mobile whilst in the States. In 2006 I was charged approximately £1.20 per minute whilst using my Orange phone there (6310i. Of course things may have become cheaper ... <gosh was that a flying picg I just saw?> May be cheaper investigating a pre paid calling card account. Regards Alan > Just watch the cost of calling back home to the UK on your UK mobile > whilst in the States. In 2006 I was charged approximately £1.20 per > minute whilst using my Orange phone there (6310i. > > Of course things may have become cheaper ... <gosh was that a flying > picg I just saw?> Don't think so... although rates in Europe have fallen quite a bit AFAIK recently, that's specifically an EU thing so it's a nasty shock if you go to the US. > May be cheaper investigating a pre paid calling card account. Yep - what I did - much better (bought a T-Mobile one off ebay direct from the US). David > Just watch the cost of calling back home to the UK on your UK mobile > whilst in the States. In 2006 I was charged approximately £1.20 per minute [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Alan Just unlock your phone and buy an AT&T SIM card when you get there. It will be much, much cheaper than roaming, and people can call you cheaply from the UK too via a calling card. Benedict. > If people go to US - can they receive/send calls to/from their > mobiles - can they receive/send texts Both my O2 and Orange SIMs work in the US, for both voice and texting. Make sure the phone you use has at least one of the US GSM bands - 850 and 1900. >> If people go to US - can they receive/send calls to/from their >> mobiles - can they receive/send texts > > Both my O2 and Orange SIMs work in the US, for both voice and texting. > Make sure the phone you use has at least one of the US GSM bands - 850 > and 1900. And also bring a blanket, matches and firewood - cuz there are a lot of US places where sending smoke signals would be a better means of communication than zero bars on GSM. Digital coverage wasn't great when I was in Navada last year roaming on O2 with an Sony Ericsson K750i. SignatureAdrian C > And also bring a blanket, matches and firewood - cuz there are a lot of > US places where sending smoke signals would be a better means of > communication than zero bars on GSM. Digital coverage wasn't great when > I was in Navada last year roaming on O2 with an Sony Ericsson K750i. My daughter is currently in Nevada, using an ATT SIM and a phone which uses BOTH US bands. It has reasonable coverage (except for inside the flat she's in!). Friends of hers who are using T-Mobile have little or no coverage. ATT uses both US GSM bands, while, in most areas, T-Mob uses only one. > My daughter is currently in Nevada, using an ATT SIM and a phone which > uses BOTH US bands. It has reasonable coverage (except for inside the > flat she's in!). Friends of hers who are using T-Mobile have little or > no coverage. ATT uses both US GSM bands, while, in most areas, T-Mob > uses only one. Yes, that makes sense - My GSM triband (hence singular US band) phone roamed over to T-Mobile... so that's where my problems started ;-) SignatureAdrian C >> And also bring a blanket, matches and firewood - cuz there are a lot of >> US places where sending smoke signals would be a better means of [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > coverage. ATT uses both US GSM bands, while, in most areas, > T-Mob uses only one. Indeed, if possible get a quadbander, rather than a Tribander with only 1900MHz, the old AMPS service is being replace by a growing 850MHz GSM. Steve Terry >>> If people go to US - can they receive/send calls to/from their >>> mobiles - can they receive/send texts [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > communication than zero bars on GSM. Digital coverage wasn't great when > I was in Navada last year roaming on O2 with an Sony Ericsson K750i. If you are traveling anywhere outside of built-up urban areas in the US you really should have a phone which supports 850 MHz along with 1900. I'd say this is particularly true if you are roaming with a UK SIM and have the luxury of selecting any available network, but even when using a US T-Mobile prepaid SIM, when T-Mobile's own native 1900 MHz coverage peters out they'll often let you roam (at no additional charge) on rural 850 MHz networks. Dennis Ferguson As others mentioned, as long as your provider have roaming agreement (All the major UK carriers do) with the US carriers, and you have th appropriate bands on your phone, you will not have any problem texting, calling or even using data. A triband phone will probably onl pickup tmobile in most. A quad with the 850 band will give you mor better coverage...especially outside of urban areas, and insid buildings. And you wuill be roaming on AT&T. If you will be making a lot of calls back to the UK, your best bet is prepaid sim. There are plenty and very cheap tmobile sims on ebay. Jus find a seller that will mail it to the UK -- mrcamp |
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